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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... express the claims of desert , seem to contradict this contention . But from a utilitarian standpoint the explanation of these precepts and of their seemingly stringent character is that they are those precepts which experience shows ...
... express this by saying that in justice as fairness the concept of right is prior to that of the good . A just social system defines the scope within which individuals must develop their aims , and it provides a framework of rights and ...
... of intuitionism , see H. J. McCloskey , Meta - Ethics and Normative Ethics ( The Hague , Martinus Nijhoff , 1969 ) . unanalyzable , that moral principles when suitably formulated express self 34 Justice as Fairness 7. Intuitionism.
Original Edition John Rawls. unanalyzable , that moral principles when suitably formulated express self - evident propositions about legitimate moral claims , and so on . But I shall leave these matters aside . These characteristic ...
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