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. |
Fra bogen
Resultater 6-10 af 94
... justice requires an equal liberty for all and permits only those economic and social inequalities which are to each person's interests . Implicit in the contrasts between classical utilitarianism and justice as fairness is a difference ...
... equal liberty prior to the principle regulating economic and social inequalities . This means , in effect , that the basic structure of society is to arrange the inequalities of wealth and authority in ways consistent with the equal ...
... equal liberties of citizenship and those that specify and establish social and economic inequalities . The basic liberties of citizens are , roughly speaking , political liberty ( the right to vote and to be eligible for public office ) ...
... liberty be counterbalanced in this way . Applied to the basic structure ... equality is taken as a benchmark . How then are we to choose among these possibilities ? The ... equal liberty has the same sense throughout , we then have four ...
Du har nået visningsgrænsen for denne bog.