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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... idea that principles of justice may be conceived as principles that would be chosen by rational persons , and that ... ideas and accords with natural piety . There are then several advantages in the use of the term “ contract . ” With ...
... idea here is simply to make vivid to ourselves the restrictions that it seems reasonable to impose on arguments for principles of justice , and therefore on these principles themselves . Thus it seems reasonable and generally acceptable ...
... idea of the original position , therefore , is to see it as an expository device which sums up the meaning of these conditions and helps us to extract their consequences . On the other hand , this conception is also an intuitive notion ...
... idea is made all the more attractive by a further consideration . The two main concepts of ethics are those of the right and the good ; the concept of a morally worthy person is , I believe , derived from them . The structure of an ...
... Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument , trans . J. Petrie ( London , Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1963 ) , p . 41 All of the first two chapters , a translation of De la Justice ( Brussels , 1943 ) , is relevant here , but especially ...