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 74
... Moral Complications and Moral Structures , " Natural Law Forum , vol . 13 ( 1968 ) . Intuitionism in the traditional sense includes certain epistemological theses , for example , those concerning the self - evidence and necessity of moral ...
... moral worth as lexically prior to non - moral values . See for example Ross , The Right and the Good , pp . 149–154 . And of course the primacy of justice noted in $ 1 , as well as the priority of right as found in Kant , are further ...
... moral facts which cannot be altered . Instead , it is the problem of formulating reasonable and generally acceptable proposals for bringing about the desired agreement in judgments . On a contract doctrine the moral facts are determined ...
Original Edition John Rawls. 9. SOME REMARKS ABOUT MORAL THEORY It seems desirable at this point , in order to prevent misunderstanding , to discuss briefly the nature of moral theory . I shall do this by explaining in more detail the ...
... moral philosophy . There is no reason to assume that our sense of justice can be adequately characterized by familiar common sense precepts , or derived from the more obvious learning principles . A correct account of moral capacities ...