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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... recognized alternatives . Thus justice as fairness moves us closer to the philosophical ideal ; it does not , of course , achieve it . This explanation of reflective equilibrium suggests straightway a number of further questions . For ...
... recognizing their complexity is accepting the fact that our present theories are primitive and have grave defects . We need to be tolerant of simplifications if they reveal and approximate the general outlines of our judgments ...
... recognized and an effort made to find principles to deal with it . One is led to attend throughout to the conditions under which the acknowledgment of the absolute weight of liberty with respect to social and economic advantages , as ...
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