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內容簡介 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. Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of John Rawls�s view, much of the extensive literature on his theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes it once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls�s work.
