John Rawls - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页2008年3月25日 · John Rawls (b. 1921, d. 2002) was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition. His theory of justice as fairness describes a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights and cooperating within an egalitarian economic system.
A Theory of Justice - Wikipedia
网页A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory uses an updated form of ...
John Rawls | Biography, Philosophy, & Facts | Britannica
网页John Rawls, American political and ethical philosopher, best known for his defense of egalitarian liberalism in his major works A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993). He is widely considered the most important political philosopher of the 20th century.
4.6: A Theory of Justice (John Rawls) - Humanities LibreTexts
网页2021年3月10日 · A Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls, in which the author attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society) by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. The resultant theory is known as "Justice as Fairness", from which ...
A Theory of Justice — Harvard University Press
网页1999年9月30日 · Rawls’s Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this century’s most important work of political philosophy. Originally published in 1971, it quickly became the subject of extensive commentary and criticism, which led Rawls to revise some of the arguments he had originally put forward in this work…
Justice - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页2017年6月26日 · John Rawls’ theory of justice is the most widely-cited example of a contractarian theory, but before outlining it, two words of caution are necessary. First, the shape of the theory has evolved from its first incarnation in Rawls (1958) through his major work A Theory of Justice (Rawls 1971) and on to Rawls (1993) and Rawls (2001).
Original Position - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页2008年12月20日 · The original position is a central feature of John Rawls’s social contract account of justice, “justice as fairness,” set forth in A Theory of Justice (TJ). The original position is designed to be a fair and impartial point of view that is to be adopted in our reasoning about fundamental principles of justice.
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition on JSTOR
网页Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory ofJustice has become a classic. The author has now revised theoriginal edition to clear up a number of dif...
Rawls, John | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页Rawls takes the basic structure of society as his subject matter and utilitarianism as his principal opponent. Part One of TJ designs a social-contract-type thought experiment, the Original Position (OP), and argues that parties in the OP will prefer Justice as Fairness to utilitarianism and various other views.
A Theory of Justice - John Rawls - Google Books
网页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...
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