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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... accordance with its principles . These principles can serve as part of the premises of an argument which arrives at the matching judgments . We do not understand our sense of justice until we know in some systematic way covering a wide ...
... accordance with a public understanding that the system of rules defining the institution is to be followed . Thus parliamentary institutions are defined by a certain system of rules ( or family of such systems to allow for variations ) ...
... accordance with which the basic structure is framed . There is no contradiction in supposing that a slave or caste society , or one sanctioning the most arbitrary forms of discrimination , is evenly and consistently administered ...
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