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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... society or to set up a particular form of government . Rather , the guiding idea is that the principles of justice for the basic structure of society are the object of the original agreement . They are the principles that free and ...
... society , and the nature of this position materially affects his life prospects . Yet a society satisfying the principles of justice as fairness comes as close as a society can to being a voluntary scheme , for it meets the principles ...
... society which makes it easy to suppose that the most rational conception of justice is utilitarian . For consider : each man in realizing his own interests is certainly free to balance his own losses against his own gains . We may ...
... Society must allocate its means of satisfaction whatever these are , rights and duties , opportunities and ... society to maximize the net balance of satisfaction taken over all of its members . The most natural way , then , of arriving ...
... society . It is this spectator who is conceived as carrying out the required organization of the desires of all persons into one coherent system of desire ; it is by this construction that many persons are fused into one . Endowed with ...