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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... choice , and so the principles of justice , are themselves the object of an original agreement . There is no reason to suppose that the principles which should regulate an association of men is simply an extension of 28 Justice as Fairness.
Original Edition John Rawls. regulate an association of men is simply an extension of the principle of choice for one man . On the contrary : if we assume that the correct regulative principle for anything depends on the nature of that ...
... regulated by principles which persons would choose in an initial situation that is fair , in the other as the efficient administration of social resources to maximize the satisfaction of the system of desire constructed by the impartial ...
... regulating economic and social inequalities . This means , in effect , that the basic structure of society is to arrange the inequalities of wealth and authority in ways consistent with the equal liberties required by the preceding ...
... regulated by a shared conception of justice , there is also a public understanding as to what is just and unjust . Later I assume that the principles of justice are chosen subject to the knowledge that they are to be public ( $ 23 ) ...