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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... theory of justice . But how are we to decide what is the most favored interpretation ? I assume , for one thing , that there is a broad measure of agreement that principles of justice should be chosen under certain conditions . To ...
... theory is , then , largely determined by how it defines and connects these two basic notions . Now it seems that the simplest way of relating them is taken by teleological theories : the good is defined independently from the right ...
... theory the good is defined independently from the right . This means two things . First , the theory accounts for our considered judgments as to which things are good ( our judgments of value ) as a separate class of judgments ...
... theory whereas justice as fairness is not . By definition , then , the latter is a deontological theory , one that either does not specify the good independently from the right , or does not interpret the right as maximizing the good ...
... theories of this type are found in Brian Barry , Political Argument ( London , Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1965 ) , see esp . pp . 4–8 , 286f ; R. B. Brandt , Ethical Theory ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. , Prentice - Hall , Inc. 1959 ) , pp ...