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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... 1962 ) , pp . 326–335 ; and J. G. Murphy , Kant : The Philosophy of Right ( London , Macmillan , 1970 ) , pp . 109-112 , 133--136 , for a further discussion . cepts of justice and fairness are the same , any 12 Justice as Fairness.
... discussion of utilitarianism has taken a different turn in recent years by focusing on what we may call the ... discuss . Finally , we should note here the essays of J. C. Harsanyi , in particular , “ Cardinal Utility in Welfare ...
... discussion of the hierarchy of wants and its relation to utility theory , see Nicholas Georgescu - Roegen , " Choice , Expectations , and Measurability , ” Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol . 68 ( 1954 ) , esp . pp . 510–520 . it ...
... See H. L. A. Hart , The Concept of Law ( Oxford , The Clarendon Press , 1961 ) , pp . 59f , 106 , 109–114 , for a discussion of when rules and legal systems may be said to exist . 55 10. Institutions and Formal Justice.
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