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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... seem forced to choose between utilitarianism and intuitionism . Most likely we finally settle upon a variant of the ... seems to offer an alternative systematic account of justice that is superior , or so I argue , to the dominant ...
... seems likely that persons who view themselves as equals , entitled to press their claims upon one another , would agree to a principle which may require lesser life prospects for some simply for the sake of a greater sum of advantages ...
... seem to be a fair agreement on the basis of which those better endowed , or more fortunate in their social position , neither of which we can be said to deserve , could expect the willing cooperation of others when some workable scheme ...
... seems reasonable to impose on arguments for principles of justice , and therefore on these principles themselves . Thus it seems reasonable and generally acceptable that no one should be advantaged or disadvantaged by natural fortune or ...
... seems that the simplest way of relating them is taken by teleological theories : the good is defined independently ... seem to embody the idea of rationality . It is natural to think that 10. On this point see also D. P. Gauthier ...