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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... favored interpretation of this initial choice situation for the purposes of a theory of justice . But how are we to decide what is the most favored interpretation ? I assume , for one thing , that there is a broad measure of agreement ...
... favored description of this situation we work from both ends . We begin by describing it so that it represents generally shared and preferably weak conditions . We then see if these conditions are strong enough to yield a significant ...
... favored interpretation of the initial situation there is no point at which an appeal is made to self - evidence in the traditional sense either of general conceptions or particular convictions . I do not claim for the principles of ...
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