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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... Common sense intuitionism takes the form of groups of rather specific precepts , each group applying to a particular problem of justice . There is a group of precepts which applies to the question of fair wages , another to that of ...
... common sense . But it is pointless to discuss this matter in the abstract . The intuitionist and his critic will have to settle this question once the latter has put forward his more systematic account . It may be asked whether ...
... common convictions of justice . Indeed , once we look at things from the standpoint of the initial situation , the priority problem is not that of how to cope with the complexity of already given moral facts which cannot be altered ...
... common sense precepts , or derived from the more obvious learning principles . A correct account of moral capacities will certainly involve principles and theoretical constructions which go much beyond the norms and standards cited in ...
Original Edition John Rawls. stances where the more common excuses and explanations for making a mistake do not obtain . The person making the judgment is presumed , then , to have the ability , the opportunity , and the desire to reach ...