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A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory uses an updated form of ...
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Part One. Theory CHAPTER I. JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS 3 1. The Role of Justice 3 2. The Subject of Justice 6 3. The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice 10 4. The Original Position and Justification 15 5. Classical Utilitarianism 19 6. Some Related Contrasts 24 7. Intuitionism 30 8. The Priority Problem 36 9. Some Remarks about Moral Theory 40 CHAPTER II.
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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory ofJustice has become a classic. The author has now revised theoriginal edition to clear up a number of dif...
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John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common coreof the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide analternative to utilitarianism, w...
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A Theory of Justice. John Rawls. Harvard University Press, 2009 - Law - 560 pages. Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" has become a classic. The author has now revised...
Mar 25, 2008 · Rawls first set out justice as fairness in systematic detail in his 1971 book, A Theory of Justice. Rawls continued to rework justice as fairness throughout his life, restating the theory in Political Liberalism (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999), and Justice as Fairness (2001).