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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... Civil Disobedience " ( 1966 ) . The second chapter of the last part covers the subjects of “ The Sense of Justice ” ( 1963 ) . Except in a few places , the other chapters of this part do not parallel the published essays . Although the ...
... Civil Disobedience , ” Civil Disobedience , ed . H. A. Bedau ( New York , Pegasus , 1969 ) ; “ The Sense of Justice , ” The Philosophical Review , vol . 62 ( 1963 ) . 2. See Brian Barry , “ On Social Justice , ” The Oxford Review ...
... Civil Disobedience 363 56. The Definition of Conscientious Refusal 368 57. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 371 58. The Justification xiv Contents.
Original Edition John Rawls. 57. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 371 58. The Justification of Conscientious Refusal 377 59. The Role of Civil Disobedience 382 Part Three . Ends CHAPTER VII . GOODNESS AS RATIONALITY 395 60. The ...
... civil disobedience and militant resistance to revolution and rebellion . Also included here are questions of compensatory justice and of weighing one form of institutional injustice against another . Obviously the problems of partial 2 ...