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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... Concerning the Principles of Morals , sec . III , pt . I , par . 3 , ed . L. A. Selby - Bigge , 2nd edition ( Oxford , 1902 ) , p . 184 . compliance theory are the pressing and urgent matters . These 8 Justice as Fairness.
Original Edition John Rawls. compliance theory are the pressing and urgent matters . These are the things that we are ... matter here . I shall proceed by discussing principles which do apply to what is certainly a part of the basic ...
... matters I shall take up in the immediately succeeding chapters . It may be observed , however , that once the principles of justice are thought of as arising from an original agreement in a situation of equality , it is an open question ...
... matters are understood cannot be decided in advance . 4. THE ORIGINAL POSITION AND JUSTIFICATION I have said that the original position is the appropriate initial status quo which insures that the fundamental agreements reached in it ...
... matter of the mutual support of many considerations , of everything fitting together into one coherent view . A final comment . We shall want to say that certain principles of justice are justified because they would be agreed to in an ...