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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... Constitutional Liberty " ( 1963 ) , “ Distributive Justice " ( 1967 ) , and " 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 ...
... Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice , " Nomos VI : Justice , ed . C. J. Friedrich and John Chapman ( New York , Atherton Press , 1963 ) ; “ Distributive Justice , ” Philosophy , Politics , and Society , Third Series , ed ...
... Constitution 221 37. Limitations on the Principle of Participation 228 38. The Rule of Law 235 39. The Priority of Liberty Defined 243 40. The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness 251 CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES 258 41. The ...
... constitution and the principal economic and social arrangements . Thus the legal protection of freedom of thought and liberty of conscience , competitive markets , private property in the means of production , and the monogamous family ...
... constitution and a legislature to enact laws , and so on , all in accordance with the principles of justice initially agreed upon . Our social situation is just if it is such that by this sequence of hypothetical agreements we would ...