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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... rules necessary for a common conception of justice . I have reviewed two obvious and simple ways of dealing constructively with the priority problem : namely , either by a single overall principle , or by a plurality of principles in ...
... rules of method as other theories . Definitions and analyses of meaning do not have a special place : definition is but one device used in setting up the general structure of theory . Once the whole framework is worked out , definitions ...
... rules ; and while a lexical ordering may serve fairly well for some important cases , I assume that it will not be completely satisfactory . Nevertheless , we are free to use simplifying devices , and this I have often done . We should ...
... rules which defines offices and positions with their rights and duties , powers and immunities , and the like . These rules specify certain forms of action as permissible , others as forbidden ; and they provide for certain penalties ...
... rules of a certain subpart of an institution are known only to those belonging to it , we may assume that there is an understanding that those in this part can make rules for themselves as long as these rules are designed to achieve ...