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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... notion is found in Aristotle and Nietzsche , among others . If the good is defined as pleasure , we have hedonism ; if as happiness , eudaimonism , and so on . I shall understand the principle of utility in its classical form as ...
... notions of this type but so perhaps are most philosophical doctrines . One way of distinguishing between intuitionist ... notion of a fair wage , say , we are to balance somehow various competing criteria , for example , the claims of ...
... notion of a recognizably ethical principle is vague , although it is easy to give many examples drawn from tradition and common sense . But it is pointless to discuss this matter in the abstract . The intuitionist and his critic will ...
... notion of choosing principles is that the reasons which underlie their adoption in the first place may also support giving them certain weights . Since in justice as fairness the principles of justice are not thought of as self ...
... notion of reflective equilibrium . The need for this idea arises as follows . According to the provisional aim of ... notion of reflective equilibrium introduces some complications that call for comment . For one thing , it is a notion ...