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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... Institutions CHAPTER IV . EQUAL LIBERTY 195 31. The Four - Stage Sequence 195 32. The Concept of Liberty 201 33. Equal Liberty of Conscience 205 34. Toleration and the Common Interest 211 35. Toleration of the Intolerant 216 36 ...
... institutions , as truth is of systems of thought . A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue ; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well - arranged must be reformed or ...
... institutions generally satisfy and are generally known to satisfy these principles . In this case while men may put forth excessive demands on one another , they nevertheless acknowledge a common point of view from which their claims ...
... institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation . By major institutions I understand the political constitution and the principal economic and social arrangements ...
... institutions . Though justice may be , as Hume remarked , the cautious , jealous virtue , we can still ask what a ... institutional injustice against another . Obviously the problems of partial 2. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of ...