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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... basic structure of society are the object of the original agreement . They are the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality as defining the ...
... basic structure merely because it maximized the algebraic sum of advantages irrespective of its permanent effects on his own basic rights and interests . Thus it seems that the principle of utility is incompatible with the conception of ...
... basis of equality is taken to be similarity in these two respects . Systems of ends are not ranked in value ; and each ... basic structure of society which we now make intuitively and in which we have the greatest confidence ; or whether ...
... basis for deciding whether the determination of fair wages makes sense in view of the taxes to be imposed . How we ... basic structure of society is to be designed first to produce the most good in the sense of the greatest net balance ...
... basic structure satisfy these principles ; and represent total satisfaction on the positive X - axis and equality on the positive Y - axis . ( The latter may be supposed to have an upper bound at perfect equality . ) The extent to which ...