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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... Association 467 72. The Morality of Principles 472 73. Features of the Moral Sentiments 479 74. The Connection between Moral and Natural Attitudes 485 75. The Principles of Moral Psychology 490 76. The Problem of Relative Stability 496 ...
... association of persons who in their relations to one another recognize certain rules of conduct as binding and who for the most part act in accordance with them . Suppose further that these rules specify a system of cooperation designed ...
... association . Existing societies are of course seldom well - ordered in this sense , for what is just and unjust is usually in dispute . Men disagree about which principles should define the basic terms of their association . Yet we may ...
... associations or for those of less comprehensive social groups . They may be irrelevant for the various informal conventions and customs of everyday life ; they may not elucidate the justice , or perhaps better , the fairness of ...
... association . These principles are to regulate all further agreements ; they specify the kinds of social cooperation that can be entered into and the forms of government that can be established . This way of regarding the principles of ...