(P/B) A THEORY OF JUSTICE

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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. (From the publisher)

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Preface for the Revised Edition
Preface
Part One. Theory
Chapter I. Justice as Fairness
Chapter III. The Original Position
Part Two. Institutions
Chapter IV. Equal Liberty
Chapter V. Distributive Shares
Chapter VI. Duty and Obligation
Part Three. Ends
Chapter VII. Goodness and Rationality
Chapter VIII. The Sense of Justice
Chapter IX. The Good of Justice