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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... Justice " ( 1967 ) , and " Civil Disobedience " ( 1966 ) . The second chapter of the last part covers the subjects of “ The Sense of Justice ” ( 1963 ) . Except in a few places , the other chapters of this part do not parallel the ...
... Sense of Justice , ” The Philosophical Review , vol . 62 ( 1963 ) . 2. See Brian Barry , “ On Social Justice , ” The Oxford Review ( Trinity Term , 1967 ) , pp . 29–52 ; Michael Lessnoff , “ John Rawls ' Theory of Justice , ” Political ...
... justice is an interpretation of this role . Now this approach may not seem to tally with tradition . I believe , though , that it does . The more specific sense that Aristotle gives to justice , and from which the most familiar ...
... sense of justice . The original position is , one might say , the appropriate initial status quo , and thus the fundamental agreements reached in it are fair . This explains the propriety of the name “ justice as fairness " : it conveys ...
Original Edition John Rawls. cepts of justice and fairness are the same , any more than the phrase “ poetry as metaphor ” means that the concepts of poetry and metaphor are the same . Justice ... sense ; each person finds himself placed at ...