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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... parties in the initial situation as rational and mutually disinterested . This does not mean that the parties are egoists , that is , individuals with only certain kinds of interests , say in wealth , prestige , and domination . But ...
Original Edition John Rawls. the beliefs and interests of the parties , their relations with respect to one another , the alternatives between which they are to choose , the procedure whereby they make up their minds , and so on . As the ...
... parties in the original position would not choose the principle of utility to define the terms of social cooperation . This is a difficult question which I shall examine later on . It is perfectly possible , from all that one knows at ...
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