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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Original Edition John Rawls. of principle between the claims of liberty and right on the one hand and the desirability of increasing aggregate social welfare on the other ; and that we give a certain priority , if not absolute weight ...
... claims which directly violate them . An individual who finds that he enjoys seeing others in positions of lesser liberty understands that he has no claim whatever to this enjoyment . The pleasure he takes in other's deprivations is ...
... claims , and so on . But I shall leave these matters aside . These characteristic epistemological doctrines are not a necessary part of intuitionism as I understand it . Perhaps it would be better if we were to speak of intuitionism in ...
... claimed that in the assignment of weights we are guided , without being aware of it , by certain further standards or by ... claims that , in fact , there is no such interpretation . He contends that there exists no expressible ethical ...
... claims is to that extent obscure . Thus our object should be to formulate a conception of justice which , however much it ition , ethical or prudential , tends to make our considered judgments of justice converge . If such a conception ...