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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... possible descriptions to which one might plausibly conform one's judgments together with all relevant philosophical arguments for them . In the first case we would be describing a person's sense of justice more or less as it is although ...
... possible by developments since Frege and Cantor . A knowledge of the fundamental structures of logic and set theory and their relation to mathematics has transformed the 26. I believe that this view goes back in its essentials to ...
... possible that convincing answers to questions of the meaning and justification of moral judgments can be found in no other way . I wish , then , to stress the central place of the study of our substantive moral conceptions . But the ...
... possible form of conduct expressed by a system of rules ; and second , as the realization in the thought and conduct of certain persons at a certain time and place of the actions specified by these rules . There is an ambiguity , then ...
... possible to achieve results which although not intended or perhaps even foreseen by them are nevertheless the best ones from the standpoint of social justice . Bentham thinks of this coordination as the artificial identification of ...