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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... apply to individuals and their actions in particular circumstances . These two kinds of principles apply to different subjects and must be discussed separately 54 Chapter II: The Principles of Justice 10. Institutions and Formal Justice.
... actions specified by these rules . There is an ambiguity , then , as to which is just or unjust , the institution as realized or the institution as an abstract object . It seems best to say that it is the institution as realized and ...
... actions are permissible . There is a common basis for determining mutual expectations . Moreover , in a well - ordered society , one effectively regulated by a shared conception of justice , there is also a public understanding as to ...
... actions . Moreover , even where laws and institutions are unjust , it is often better that they should be consistently applied . In this way those subject to them at least know what is demanded and they can try to protect themselves ...
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