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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... follow the general point of view of “ Outline of a Procedure for Ethics , " Philosophical Review , vol . 60 ( 1951 ) . The comparison with linguistics is of course new . could conceal the fact that characterizing our moral capacities is ...
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... follows . All social values — liberty and opportunity , income and wealth , and the bases of self - respect - are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distribution of any , or all , of these values is to everyone's advantage ...
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