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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... Idea of the Theory of Justice 11 4. The Original Position and Justification 17 5. Classical Utilitarianism 22 6. Some Related Contrasts 27 7. Intuitionism 34 8. The Priority Problem 40 9. Some Remarks about Moral Theory 46 CHAPTER II ...
... Idea of Social Union 520 80. The Problem of Envy 530 81. Envy and Equality 534 82. The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty 541 83. Happiness and Dominant Ends 548 84. Hedonism as a Method of Choice 554 85. The Unity of the Self 560 86 ...
... ideas of the theory of justice I wish to develop . The exposition is informal and intended to prepare the way for the ... idea of justice as fairness , a theory of justice that generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the ...
... IDEA OF THE THEORY OF JUSTICE My aim is to present a conception of justice which generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the familiar theory of the social ... Idea of the Theory 3. The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice.
... idea is that since everyone's well - being depends upon a scheme of cooperation without which no one could have a ... idea I am indebted to Allan Gibbard . one grants that the contractarian method is a useful way 15 3. Main Idea of the ...