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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... course , this conception is extremely vague and requires interpretation . As a first step , suppose that the basic structure of society distributes certain primary goods , that is , things that every rational man is presumed to want ...
... course of policy by the exercise of these rights would be marginal in any case . It is this kind of exchange which the two principles as stated rule out ; being arranged in serial order they do not permit exchanges between basic ...
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