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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... procedures for making contractual agreements . The conditions for the law of nations may require different principles arrived at in a somewhat different way . I shall be satisfied if it is possible to formulate a reasonable conception ...
... procedure whereby they make up their minds , and so on . As the circumstances are presented in different ways , correspondingly different principles are accepted . The concept of the original position , as I shall refer to it , is that ...
... procedure , namely , by arguing for principles of justice in accordance with these restrictions . It seems reasonable to suppose that the parties in the original position are equal . That is , all have the same rights in the procedure ...
... Procedure for Ethics , " Philosophical Review , vol . 60 ( 1951 ) . The comparison with linguistics is of course new . could conceal the fact that characterizing our moral capacities is 46 Justice as Fairness 9. Some Remarks about Moral ...
... procedure in the Nicomachean Ethics . See W. F. R. Hardie , Aristotle's Ethical Theory , ch . III , esp . pp . 37–45 . And Sidgwick thought of the history of moral philosophy as a series of attempts to state " in full breadth and ...