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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Original Edition John Rawls. tion , give the best picture of the doctrine . So far this is about a third of the whole and comprises most of the essentials of the theory . There is a danger , however , that without consideration of the ...
Original Edition John Rawls. tion of social cooperation from which it derives . But in doing this we should not lose sight of the special role of the principles of justice or of the primary subject to which they apply . In these ...
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