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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... 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 , but the emphasis assigned to these principles should ...
... only requires that everyone's position be improved . We need not suppose anything so drastic as consenting to a condition of slavery . Imagine instead that men forego certain political rights 62 The Principles of Justice.
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