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- Kant’s universal theory of justice states simply that one’s choices are just if they ‘act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law’ (1965, p 35).
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moral powers—their capacity for a sense of justice and their capacity for a conception of the good—in what I call the two fundamental cases. Very briefly, the first fundamental case is the application of the principles of justice to the basic structure of society by the exercise of citizens’ sense of justice.
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Jun 26, 2017 · Aristotle, for example, distinguished between ‘universal’ justice that corresponded to ‘virtue as a whole’ and ‘particular’ justice which had a narrower scope (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book V, chs. 1–2). The wide sense may have been more evident in classical Greek than in modern English.
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 ...
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Mar 25, 2008 · 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. Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. This revised edition clears up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Learn more about A Theory of Justice ».
Mar 8, 2002 · There Plato offers the first sustained discussion of the nature of justice (dikaiosune) and its relation to happiness, as a departure from three alternatives receiving varying degrees of attention. First, there is a traditionalist conception of justice (speaking the truth and paying your debts).
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...
