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A Theory of Justice

By: Publication details: United States; Harvard University Press; 1999Description: 538 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780674000780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01
Summary: 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.
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Law 320.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC003463
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi In Store 320.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC009842
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Law 320.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 04/04/2023 PKLC005762
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore In Store 320.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC005761
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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.

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