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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... Fact , Fiction , and Forecast ( Cambridge , Mass . , Harvard University Press , 1955 ) , pp . 65–68 , for parallel remarks concerning the justification of the principles of deductive and inductive inference . 20 cases which may lead us ...
... fact accept . Or if we do not , then perhaps we can be persuaded to do so by philosophical reflection . Each aspect of the contractual situation can be given supporting grounds . Thus what we shall do is to collect together into one ...
... fact a derivation of this kind is sometimes suggested by Bentham and Edgeworth , although it is not developed by them in any systematic way and to my knowledge it is not found in Sidgwick.14 For the present I shall simply assume that ...
... fact , there is no such interpretation . He contends that there exists no expressible ethical conception which ... facts defies our efforts to give a full account of our judgments and necessitates a plurality of competing principles . He ...
... fact that they would be chosen , we may find in the grounds for their acceptance some guidance or limitation as to how they are to be balanced . Given the situation of the original position , it may be clear that certain priority rules ...