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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... adopted by most classical British writers through Sidgwick . I see no reason to depart from it.26 Moreover , if we can find an accurate account of our moral conceptions , then questions of meaning and justification may prove much easier ...
... adopted . In this chapter two principles of justice for institutions and several principles for individuals are discussed and their meaning explained . Thus I am concerned for the present with only one aspect of the first part of the ...
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