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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... person's sense of justice more or less as it is although allowing for the smoothing out of certain irregularities ; in the second case a person's sense of justice may or may not undergo a radical shift . Clearly it is the second kind of ...
... person's considered judgments are the same as those that characterize another's . I shall take for granted that these principles are either approximately the same for persons whose judgments are in reflective equilibrium , or if not ...
... persons , or require that everyone gain from an inequality , the reference is to representative persons holding the various social positions , or offices , or whatever , established by the basic structure . Thus in applying the second ...
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