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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... ideal of justice as fairness is more deeply embedded in the first principles of the ethical theory . This is characteristic of natural rights views ( the contractarian tradition ) in comparison with the theory of utility . In setting ...
... ideal ; it does not , of course , achieve it . This explanation of reflective equilibrium suggests straightway a number of further questions . For example , does a reflective equilibrium ( in the sense of the philosophical ideal ) exist ...
... ideal legislator in enacting laws and of the moralist in urging their reform . Still , the strategies and tactics followed by individuals , while essential to the assessment of institutions , are not part of the public systems of rules ...
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