Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement



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Page: 240
ISBN: 0674005112, 9780674005112
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


"Faith, Social Hope and Clarity". Otherwise, unequal rights and liberties undermine democratic Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. In Justice as Fairness, Rawls asserts that the basic or fundamental rights of “conscience and freedom of association, freedom of speech (my emphasis) and liberty of the person, the rights to vote, to hold public office, to be treated in accordance with the rule of law, and so on,” should be equal to all” as a matter of justice. Still, it is to some extent already present in the earlier work. Mulgan, Tim (2007) Understanding Utilitarianism (Stocksfield: Acumen). John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (TJ) appeared three decades ago, in the heyday of analytic moral philosophy. At the time slightly more faithfully (still: to understand Rawls' later work, one needs to read his Political Liberalism (John Dewey Essays in Philosophy) and, perhaps, also his (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement). (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). JF Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, ed. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. This not so sad idea can be found in John Rawls's “Justice as Fairness: a Restatement” with an explanation (not all that easy to follow) of why Nozick's idea is so sad. (John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, 136-138.) Given my commitment to Rawlsian political philosophy and my staunch libertarian leanings, a pressing question arises: what gives? Justice.as.Fairness.A.Restatement.pdf. Distributive Justice: A Constructive Critique of the Utilitarian Theory of Distribution. [6] This feature of Theory becomes more pronounced in Political Liberalism where Rawls presents Justice as Fairness as a way of specifying the content of a political conception of justice, understood as a module that can fit into and claim support from any reasonable comprehensive doctrine.[7]. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. * Rawls, John (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). 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 19th century.