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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... judgments as to which things are good ( our judgments of value ) as a separate class of judgments intuitively distinguishable by common sense , and then proposes the hypothesis that the right is maximizing the good as already specified ...
... judgments reflect the rational preferences and the initial equality of the contracting parties . Although the utilitarian recognizes that , strictly speaking , his doctrine conflicts with these sentiments of justice , he maintains that ...
... judgments of justice ; we have moved beyond the narrow de facto compromise of interests to a wider view . Of course we are still left with an appeal to intuition in the balancing of the higherorder ends of policy themselves . Different ...
... judgments they represent would be inconsistent . The slope of the curve at any point expresses the relative weights ... judgments of two different persons . The solid lines depict the judgments of the one who gives a relatively strong ...
... judgments which will be made can be foreseen . In this sense these judgments have a consistent and definite structure . Of course , it may be claimed that in the assignment of weights we are guided , without being aware of it , by ...