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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... once we look at things from the standpoint of the initial situation , the priority problem is not that of how to cope with the complexity of already given moral facts which cannot be altered . Instead , it is the problem of formulating ...
... once we regard the sense of justice as a mental capacity , as involving the exercise of thought , the relevant judgments are those given under conditions favorable for deliberation and judgment in general . I now turn to the notion of ...
... once their regulative principles are brought to light . And we may want to do this even though these principles are a perfect fit . A knowledge of these principles may suggest further reflections that lead us to revise our judgments ...
... Once the whole framework is worked out , definitions have no distinct status and stand or fall with the theory itself . In any case , it is obviously impossible to develop a substantive theory of justice founded solely on truths of ...
... Once the substantive content of moral conceptions is better understood , a similar transformation may occur . It is possible that convincing answers to questions of the meaning and justification of moral judgments can be found in no ...