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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... desire has some value in itself which must be taken into account in deciding what is right . In calculating the greatest balance of satisfaction it does not matter , except indirectly , what the desires are for.15 We are to arrange ...
... desire constructed by the impartial spectator from the many individual systems of desires accepted as given . The comparison with classical utilitarianism in its more natural derivation brings out this contrast . 7. INTUITIONISM I shall ...
... desire to act in accord with these pronouncements and expect a similar desire on the part of others . Clearly this moral capacity is extraordinarily complex . To see this it suffices to note the potentially infinite number and variety ...
... desire to reach a correct decision ( or at least , not the desire not to ) . Moreover , the criteria that identify these judgments are not arbitrary . They are , in fact , similar to those that single out considered judgments of any ...
... desire to follow rules impartially and consistently , to treat similar cases similarly , and to accept the consequences of the application of public norms is intimately connected with the desire , or at least the willingness , to ...