A Theory of Justice : : Original Edition / / John Rawls.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rawls, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Rawls, John,; Scanlon, T. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674042605; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674042605?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Rawls.

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.