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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... sense , standard in economic theory , of taking the most effective means to given ends . I shall modify this concept to some extent , as explained later ( $ 25 ) , but one must try to avoid introducing into it any controversial ethical ...
... sense precepts of justice , particularly those which concern the protection of liberties and rights , or which express the claims of desert , seem to contradict this contention . But from a utilitarian standpoint the explanation of ...
... justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests . Justice as fairness attempts to account for these common sense convictions concerning the priority of justice by showing that they are the ...
Original Edition John Rawls. principles of fidelity and allegiance derive from utility in the sense that the maintenance of the social order is impossible unless these principles are generally respected . But then Hume assumes that each ...
... sense includes certain epistemological theses , for example , those concerning the self - evidence and necessity of moral principles . Here representative works are G. E. Moore , Principia Ethica ( Cambridge , The University Press ...