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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... balances present and future gains against present and future losses , so a society may balance satisfactions and ... balance of satisfaction . The principle of choice for an association of men is interpreted as an extension of the ...
... balance of satisfaction . Thus there is no reason in principle why the greater gains of some should not compensate for the lesser losses of others ; or more importantly , why the violation of the liberty of a few might not be made right ...
... balances the gains and losses of different persons as if they were one person is excluded . Therefore in a just society the basic liberties are taken for granted and the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining ...
... balance of satisfaction never arises in justice as fairness ; this maximum principle is not used at all . There is a further point in this connection . In utilitarianism the satisfaction of any desire has some value in itself which must ...
... balance of satisfaction . But this restriction is largely formal , and in the absence of fairly detailed knowledge of the circumstances it does not give much indication of what these desires and propensities are . This is not , by ...