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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... representative works are G. E. Moore , Principia Ethica ( Cambridge , The University Press , 1903 ) , esp . chs . I and VI ; H. A. Prichard's essays and lectures in Moral Obligation ( Oxford , The Clarendon Press , 1949 ) , especially ...
... representative man in this position , it would be rational to prefer this arrangement of the basic structure rather than that . Given certain assumptions , economic and social inequalities are to be judged in terms of the long - run ...
... representative individuals holding these positions . This expectation indicates their life prospects as viewed from their social station . In general , the expectations of representative persons depend upon the distribution of rights ...
... representative men ( weighted by the number of persons they represent , on the classical view ) ; and this would permit us to compensate for the losses of some by the gains of others . Instead , the two principles require that everyone ...
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