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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... assume that the correct regulative principle for anything depends on the nature of that thing , and that the plurality of distinct persons with separate systems of ends is an essential feature of human societies , we should not expect ...
... assume that these curves slope downward to the right ; and also that they do not intersect , otherwise the judgments they represent would be inconsistent . The slope of the curve at any point expresses the relative weights of equality ...
... assume a prior position since it may , let us suppose , be satisfied . Whereas if the principle of utility were first , British Moralists , vol . I ( Oxford , 1897 ) , pp . 421–423 . J. S. Mill's well - known view in Utilitarianism , ch ...
... assume that our sense of justice can be adequately characterized by familiar common sense precepts , or derived from the more obvious learning principles . A correct account of moral capacities will certainly involve principles and ...
... assume that there is an understanding that those in this part can make rules for themselves as long as these rules are designed to achieve ends generally accepted and others are not adversely affected . The publicity of the rules of an ...