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A Theory of Justice

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#348299-VC38
Titel	A Theory of Justice
Auteur	Rawls, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0674000781
ISBN13	9780674000780
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 t... (Lees verder)he ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.
Pagina's	538
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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