A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0674000773
- ISBN-13
- 9780674000773
- Series
- A Theory of Justice
- Category
- Political Science / History & Theory
- Pages
- 538
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- John Rawls
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition
By John RawlsSince 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.
-
A Theory of Justice
By John RawlsIn this work the author argues that the correct principles of justice are those that would be agreed to by free and rational persons, placed in the original position behind a veil of ignorance: not knowing their own place in society; their ...
-
A Theory of Justice
By John RawlsSince 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...
-
John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice
By Andrius GališankaAndrius Gališanka’s incisive intellectual biography argues that in misunderstanding the origins and development of Rawls’s argument, previous narratives fail to explain the novelty of his philosophical approach and so misunderstand his ...
-
Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice': An Introduction
By Jon MandleThis book reconstructs Rawls's argument, as well as discussing some of the most influential criticisms in the secondary literature.
-
Rawls’s A Theory of Justice at 50
By Paul WeithmanThis volume of new essays marks the 50th anniversary of its publication with a multi-faceted exploration of Rawls's most important book.
-
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
By Otfried HoffeEssential reading for all who are interested in mid-century, western, political philosophy and the philosophy of John Rawls especially his seminal text A Theory of Justice.
-
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
By John Rawls, Professor John RawlsThis book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s.
-
The Idea of Justice
By Amartya SenPresents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
-
Collected Papers
By John RawlsBut before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books.