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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... considered judgments over a wide range of questions . Therefore the topics of these chapters need to be taken up , and the conclusions reached modify in turn the view proposed . But in this regard the reader is more free to follow his ...
... considered convictions of justice or extend them in an acceptable way . We can note whether applying these principles would lead us to make the same judgments about the basic structure of society which we now make intuitively and in ...
... considered convictions of justice , then so far well and good . But presumably there will be discrepancies . In this case we have a choice . We can either modify the account of the initial situation or we can revise our existing ...
... considered judgments of justice . In arriving at the favored interpretation of the initial situation there is no point at which an appeal is made to self - evidence in the traditional sense either of general conceptions or particular ...
... considered judgment , is the most just . Once we reach a certain level of generality , the intuitionist maintains that there exist no higher - order constructive criteria for determining the proper emphasis for the competing principles ...