A Theory Of Justice By John Rawls
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- ISBN: 9780674244566
- Author: John Rawls
- Genre: True Accounts, Philosophy
- Publication: Harvard University
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 538pages
- Language: English
- Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic.
- The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book.
- 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.