A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Published by Harvard University Press 1971

A Theory of Justice

Original Edition

John Rawls

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042605

Overview
Contents

About this book

John 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. Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls’s view, much of the extensive literature on his theory refers to the original. This first edition is available for scholars and serious students of Rawls’s work.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
FOREWORD T. M. Scanlon Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE John Rawls Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
PART ONE. THEORY
CHAPTER I. JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER II. THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGINAL POSITION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
PART TWO. INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER IV. EQUAL LIBERTY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
CHAPTER VI. DUTY AND OBLIGATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
PART THREE. ENDS
CHAPTER VII. GOODNESS AS RATIONALITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
CHAPTER VIII. THE SENSE OF JUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
CHAPTER IX. THE GOOD OF JUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1971
Pages
- Main content: 624

eBook

Published: September 23, 2020
ISBN: 9780674042605