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. |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 83
... society . I then present the main idea of justice as fairness , a theory of justice that generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the traditional conception of the social contract . The compact of society is replaced by ...
... society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled ; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests . The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous ...
... society , or more exactly , the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation . By major institutions I understand the political ...
... society conceived for the time being as a closed system isolated from other societies . The significance of this special case is obvious and needs no explanation . It is natural to conjecture that once we have a sound theory for this ...
... society is the fundamental part of the theory of justice . Now admittedly the concept of the basic structure is somewhat vague . It is not always clear which institutions or features thereof should be included . But it would be ...