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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... Defined 243 40. The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness 251 CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES 258 41. The ... Definition of Conscientious Refusal 368 57. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 371 58. The Justification xiv ...
... Definition of Good for Simpler Cases 399 62. A Note on Meaning 404 63. The Definition of Good for Plans of Life 407 64. Deliberative Rationality 416 65. The Aristotelian Principle 424 66. The Definition of Good Applied to Persons 433 67 ...
... defined , then , by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate ... definition clearly presupposes , however , an account of what properly belongs to a person and of what is due to him ...
... definition I adopt is designed to apply directly to the most important case , the justice of the basic structure ... defining the fundamental terms of their association . These principles are to regulate all further agreements ; they ...
... defined independently from the right , and then the right is defined as that which maximizes the good.11 More precisely ... definition of teleological theories in Ethics ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. , Prentice Hall , Inc. , 1963 ) , p . 13 ...