A Theory of Justice: Original EditionJohn 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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... argument for justice as fairness. The revised edition of A Theory of Justice and Justice As Fairness: A Restatement are the definitive statements of Rawls's view. But because so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers ...
... argument at many points . Perhaps I can best explain my aim in this book as follows . During much of modern moral philosophy the predominant systematic theory has been some form of utilitarianism . One reason for this is that it has ...
... argument of the last part , the theory of justice will be misunderstood . In particular , the following sections should be emphasized : $ $ 66-67 of Chapter VII on moral worth and self - respect and related notions ; $ 77 of Chapter ...
... argument for the two principles of justice . ? Where I have not accepted their conclusions I have had to 1. In the order mentioned in the first paragraph , the references for the six essays are as follows : “ Justice as Fairness , ” The ...
Original Edition John Rawls. amplify the argument to meet their objections . I hope the theory as now presented is no longer open to the difficulties they raised , nor to those urged by John Chapman.3 The relation between the two ...