Theory of justice (Record no. 178247)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674000780
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Classification number 320.011 RAW
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Personal name Rawls, John.
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Title Theory of justice
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard university press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999
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Extent 538 p.
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Summary, etc. "Each person," writes John Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. Therefore in a just society the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests."<br/><br/>In this book Mr. Rawls attempts to account for these propositions, which he believes express our intuitive convictions of the primacy of justice. To this end he presents his theory of justice. The principles of justice he sets forth are those that free and rational persons would accept in an initial position of equality. In this hypothetical situation, which corresponds to the state of nature in social contract theory, no one knows his place in society; his class position or social status; his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities; his intelligence, gth, and the like; or even his conception of the good. Thus, deliberating behind a veil of ignorance, men determine their rights and duties.<br/><br/>In the first, theoretical, section of the book objections to the theory and alternative positions, especially utilitarianism, are attended to. The author then applies his theory to the philosophical basis of the constitutional liberties, the problem of distributive justice, and the definition of the ground and limits of political duty and obligation. He includes here discussion of the issues of civil disobedience and conscientious objection. Finally, he connects the theory of justice with a doctrine of the good and of moral development. This enables him to formulate a conception of society as a social union of social unions and to use the theory of justice to explain the values of community.<br/><br/>Mr. Rawls believes that utilitarianism has been the dominant systematic moral view for the past two centuries. Here he develops the alternative conception of justice which he regards as implicit in the natural rights theory of the contractarian tradition.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Justice
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