A Theory of Justice (Record no. 50567)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 97806748801460674880145 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | JC578 |
| Item number | .R261 1971 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rawls, John |
| 245 #2 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Theory of Justice |
| Remainder of title | / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | John Rawls |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1971 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 607 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part 1: Theory -- Chapter 1: Justice as fairness -- Role of justice -- Subject of justice -- Main idea of the theory of justice -- Original position and justification -- Classical utilitarianism -- Some related contrasts -- Intuitionism -- Priority problem -- Some remarks about moral theory -- Chapter 2: Principles of justice -- Institutions and formal justice -- Two principles of justice -- Interpretations of the second principle -- Democratic equality and the difference principle -- Fair equality of opportunity and pure procedural justice -- Primary social goods as the basis of expectations -- Relevant social positions -- Tendency to equality -- Principles for individuals: the principle of fairness -- Principles for individuals: the natural duties -- Chapter 3: Original position -- Nature of the argument for conceptions of justice -- Presentation of alternatives -- Circumstances of justice -- Formal constraints off the concept of right -- Veil of ignorance -- Rationality of the parties -- Reasoning leading to the two principles of justice -- Reasoning leading to the principle of average utility -- Some difficulties with the average principle -- Some main grounds for the two principles of justice -- Classical utilitarianism, impartiality, and benevolence. Part 2: Institutions -- Chapter 4: Equal liberty -- Four-stage sequence -- Concept of liberty -- Equal liberty of conscience -- Toleration and the common interest -- Toleration of the intolerant -- Political justice and the constitution -- Limitations on the principle of participation -- Rule of law -- Priority of liberty defined -- Kantian interpretation of justice as fairness -- Chapter 5: Distributive shares -- Concept of justice in political economy -- Some remarks about economic systems -- Background institutions for distributive justice -- Problem of justice between generations -- Time preference -- Further cases of priority -- Precepts of justice -- Legitimate expectations and moral desert -- Comparison with mixed conceptions -- Principle of perfection -- Chapter 6: Duty and obligation -- Arguments for the principles of natural duty -- Arguments for the principle of fairness -- Duty to comply with an unjust law -- Status of majority rule -- Definition of civil disobedience -- Definition of conscientious refusal -- Justification of civil disobedience -- Justification of conscientious refusal -- Role of civil disobedience. Part 3: Ends -- Chapter 7: Goodness as rationality -- Need for a theory of the good -- Definition of good for simpler cases -- Note on meaning -- Definition of good for plans of life -- Deliberative rationality -- Aristotelian principle -- Definition of good applied to persons -- Self-respect, excellences, and shame -- Several contrasts between the right and the good -- Chapter 8: Sense of justice -- Concept of a well-ordered society -- Morality of authority -- Morality of association -- Morality of principles -- Features of the moral sentiments -- Connection between moral and natural attitudes -- Principles of moral psychology -- Problem of relative stability -- Basis of equality -- Chapter 9: Good of justice -- Autonomy and objectivity -- Idea of social union -- Problem of envy -- Envy and equality -- Grounds for the priority of liberty -- Happiness and dominant ends -- Hedonism as a method of choice -- Unity of the self -- Good of the sense of justice -- Concluding remarks on justification -- Index. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Justice.Social justice.Philosophy. |
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| GETS Theological Seminary Library | GETS Theological Seminary Library | 11/21/2023 | JC578 .R261 1971 | 00032090 | 11/21/2023 | 11/21/2023 |