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A Theory of Justice

by Rawls, John

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Revised

ISBN13:

9780674000780

ISBN10:

0674000781

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Pub. Date:

9/30/1999

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Harvard Univ Pr

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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.

Author Biography

John Rawls is James B. Conant University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Preface for the Revised Edition

Preface

xvii

Part One. Theory

Justice as Fairness

(44)

The Role of Justice

(3)

The Subject of Justice

(4)

The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice

(5)

The Original Position and Justification

(4)

Classical Utilitarianism

(5)

Some Related Contrasts

(6)

Institutionism

(6)

The Priority Problem

(4)

Some Remarks about Moral Theory

(7)

The Principles of Justice

(55)

Institutions and Formal Justice

(5)

Two Principles of Justice

(5)

Interpretations of the Second Principle

(8)

Democractic Equality and the Difference Principle

(8)

Fair Equality of Opportunity and Pure Procedural Justice

(5)

Primary Social Goods as the Basis of Expectations

(3)

Relevant Social Positions

(5)

The Tendency to Equality

(7)

Principles for Individuals: The Principles of Fairness

(5)

Principles for Individuals: The Natural Duties

(4)

The Original Position

102

(69)

The Nature of the Argument for Conceptions of Justice

102

(3)

The Presentation of Alternatives

105

(4)

The Circumstances of Justice

109

(3)

The Formal Constraints of the Concept of Right

112

(6)

The Veil of Ignorance

118

(5)

The Rationality of the Parties

123

(7)

The Reasoning Leading to the Two Principles of Justice

130

(9)

The Reasoning Leading to the Principle of Average Utility

139

(5)

Some Difficulties with the Average Principle

144

(9)

Some Main Grounds for the Two Principles of Justice

153

(7)

Classical Utilitarianism, Impartiality, and Benevolence

160

(11)

Part Two. Institutions

Equal Liberty

171

(57)

The Four-Stage Sequence

171

(5)

The Concept of Liberty

176

(4)

Equal Liberty of Conscience

180

(6)

Toleration and the Common Interest

186

(4)

Toleration of the Intolerant

190

(4)

Political Justice and the Constitution

194

(6)

Limitations on the Principle of Participation

200

(6)

The Rule of Law

206

(8)

The Priority of Liberty Defined

214

(7)

The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness

221

(7)

Distributive Shares

228

(65)

The Concept of Justice in Political Economy

228

(6)

Some Remarks about Economic Systems

234

(8)

Background Institutions for Distributive Justice

242

(9)

The Problem of Justice between Generations

251

(8)

Time Preference

259

(4)

Further Cases of Priority

263

(4)

The Precepts of Justice

267

(6)

Legitimate Expectations and Moral Desert

273

(4)

Comparison with Mixed Conceptions

277

(8)

The Principle of Perfection

285

(8)

Duty and Obligation

293

(54)

The Arguments for the Principles of Natural Duty

293

(8)

The Arguments for the Principle of Fairness

301

(7)

The Duty to Comply with an Unjust Law

308

(5)

The Status of Majority Rule

313

(6)

The Definition of Civil Disobedience

319

(4)

The Definition of Conscientious Refusal

323

(3)

The Justification of Civil Disobedience

326

(5)

The Justification of Conscientious Refusal

331

(4)

The Role of Civil Disobedience

335

(12)

Part Three. Ends

Goodness as Rationality

347

(50)

The Need for a Theory of the Good

347

(3)

The Definition of Good for Simpler Cases

350

(5)

A Note on Meaning

355

(3)

The Definition of Good for Plans of Life

358

(7)

Deliberative Rationality

365

(7)

The Aristotelian Principle

372

(8)

The Definition of Good Applied to Persons

380

(6)

Self-Respect, Excellences, and Shame

386

(6)

Several Contrasts between the Right and the Good

392

(5)

The Sense of Justice

397

(53)

The Concept of a Well-Ordered Society

397

(8)

The Morality of Authority

405

(4)

The Morality of Association

409

(5)

The Morality of Principles

414

(6)

Features of the Moral Sentiments

420

(5)

The Connection between Moral and Natural Attitudes

425

(4)

The Principles of Moral Psychology

429

(5)

The Problem of Relative Stability

434

(7)

The Basis of Equality

441

(9)

The Good of Justice

450

(67)

Autonomy and Objectivity

450

(6)

The Idea of Social Union

456

(8)

The Problem of Envy

464

(4)

Envy and Equality

468

(6)

The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty

474

(6)

Happiness and Dominant Ends

480

(6)

Hedonism as a Method of Choice

486

(5)

The Unity of the Self

491

(5)

The Good of the Sense of Justice

496

(10)

Concluding Remarks on Justification

506