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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... Economics and in the Theory of Risk - Taking , ” Journal of Political Economy , 1953 , and “ Cardinal Welfare , Individualistic Ethics , and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility , " Journal of Political Economy , 1955 ; and R. B. Brandt ...
... pages of “ The Pure Theory of Taxation , " Economic Journal , vol . 7 ( 1897 ) , where the same argument is presented more briefly . See below , $ 28 . related to the first , since it is this conflation 29 6. Some Related Contrasts.
... economic and social inequalities to those in everyone's interests , there is no reason to think that just institutions will maximize the good . ( Here I suppose with utilitarianism that the good is defined as the satisfaction of ...
... economic and social inequalities which are to each person's interests . Implicit in the contrasts between classical utilitarianism and justice as fairness is a difference in the underlying conceptions of society . In the one we think of ...
... economic and social objectives . For example , suppose that allocative efficiency , full employment , a larger national income , and its more equal distribution are accepted as social ends . Then , given the desired weighting of these ...