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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... SHARES 258 41. The Concept of Justice in Political Economy 258 42. Some Remarks about Economic Systems 265 43. Background Institutions for Distributive Justice 274 44. The Problem of Justice between Generations 284 45. Time Preference ...
... share . A set of principles is required for choosing among the various social arrangements which determine this division of advantages and for underwriting an agreement on the proper distributive shares . These principles are the ...
... shares , the way in which a conception does this is bound to affect the problems of efficiency , coordination , and stability . We cannot , in general , assess a conception of justice by its distributive role alone , however useful this ...
... share fairly in the benefits and burdens of social cooperation . The one desire tends to be associated with the other . This contention is certainly plausible but I shall not examine it here . For it cannot be properly assessed until we ...
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