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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... obligations . Their objections led me to eliminate much of this topic and to simplify the treatment of this part of ... obligation . Although supererogation is not a central topic of the book , I have been helped in my comments on it by ...
... OBLIGATION 333 51. The Arguments for the Principles of Natural Duty 333 52. The Arguments for the Principle of Fairness 342 53. The Duty To Comply with an Unjust Law 350 54. The Status of Majority Rule 356 55. The Definition of Civil ...
... obligations they recognize self - imposed . One feature of justice as fairness is to think of the parties in the initial situation as rational and mutually disinterested . This does not mean that the parties are egoists , that is ...
... obligation on an original contract . Locke's doctrine represents , for Hume , an unnecessary shuffle : : one might as well appeal directly to utility . ?? But all Hume seems to mean by utility is the general interests and necessities of ...
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