A Theory of Justice: Original EditionHarvard University Press, 31. mar. 2005 - 624 sider John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. |
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... political duty and obligation . Although supererogation is not a central topic of the book , I have been helped in my comments on it by Barry Curtis and John Troyer ; even so they may still object to what I say . Thanks should also go ...
... Political Justice and the Constitution 221 37. Limitations on the Principle of Participation 228 38. The Rule of Law 235 39. The Priority of Liberty Defined 243 40. The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness 251 CHAPTER V ...
... political constitution and the principal economic and social arrangements . Thus the legal protection of freedom of thought and liberty of conscience , competitive markets , private property in the means of production , and the ...
... Political Economy , 1953 , and “ Cardinal Welfare , Individualistic Ethics , and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility , " Journal of Political Economy , 1955 ; and R. B. Brandt , “ Some Merits of One Form of Rule - Utilitarianism ...
... political obligation on an original contract . Locke's doctrine represents , for Hume , an unnecessary shuffle : : one might as well appeal directly to utility . ?? But all Hume seems to mean by utility is the general interests and ...