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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... means of satisfaction within and by the use of which these ends may be equitably pursued . The priority of justice is accounted for , in part , by holding that the interests requiring the violation of justice have no value . Having no ...
... means trivial variations but often correspond to profoundly opposed political convictions . The principles of philosophical conceptions are of the most general kind . Not only are they intended to account for the ends of social policy ...
... means without importance . At least it would single out the criteria which are significant , the apparent axes , so to speak , of our considered judgments of social justice . The intuitionist hopes that once these axes , or principles ...
... means , in effect , that the basic structure of society is to arrange the inequalities of wealth and authority in ways consistent with the equal liberties required by the preceding principle . Certainly the concept of a lexical , or ...
... means that a departure from the institutions of equal liberty required by the first principle cannot be justified by , or compensated for , by greater social and economic advantages . The distribution of wealth and income , and the ...