Teoría de la justicia, algunas objeciones y otras posiciones, especialmente el utilitarismo, aplicada a la base filosófica de las libertades constitucionales, el problema de la justicia distributiva y la definición del ámbito y los límites del deber político y la obligación. Incluye un análisis de la desobediencia civil y la objeción al reclutamiento por motivos de conciencia. Además, relaciona la teoría de la justicia con una doctrina del bien y del desarrollo moral.

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 ...

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctri...

John Rawls, un clásico de la filosofía moral y política de nuestro tiempo, vuelve sobre la idea de justicia que ya presentó en su libro Teoría de la justicia, una concepción política de la justicia que pueda ser compatible con la diversidad de doctrinas religiosas, filosóficas y morales que conviven en la sociedad actual. Dicha idea, para Rawls, debe ser concebida teniendo en cuenta cuestiones actuales y relevantes para el momento presente, y no sólo bajo las concepciones filosóficas clási...

“A milestone in political and moral philosophy, as groundbreaking as the theories of Bentham and Kant and arguably the most important and influential piece of contemporary philosophy of the last century.” —The GuardianThe principles of justice that Rawls set forth in this book are those that free and rational people would accept in an “original position” of equality. In this hypothetical situation, which corresponds to the state of nature in social contract...

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works." He offers a broad overview of his ...

John Rawls’s work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world.But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of...

Neste livro, John Rawls reformula a ideia de uma "sociedade bem-ordenada". Esta sociedade já não é mais interpretada como unida por suas crenças morais fundamentais, e sim por sua concepção política de justiça. A justiça como equidade é agora entendida como um exemplo de tal concepção; e que seja capaz de se converter no objeto de um consenso sobreposto significa que pode ser acatada pelas principais doutrinas religiosas, filosóficas e morais que subsistem ao longo do tempo em uma sociedad...

An engaging account of the titan of political philosophy and the development of his most important work, A Theory of Justice, coming at a moment when its ideas are sorely needed.It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide, and he is one of the few philosophers whose work is known in the corridors of power as well as in the halls of aca...

John Rawls' Buch ›A Theory of Justice‹ machte den Philosophen 1971 quasi über Nacht weltberühmt: Das Werk gilt seitdem als Klassiker. Grundgedanken seiner Theorie entwickelte Rawls erstmals 1958 in seinem hier zweisprachig und mit ausführlichem Kommentar wiedergegebenen Aufsatz ›Justice as Fairness‹ (›Gerechtigkeit als Fairness‹). Sind Gerechtigkeit und Fairness dasselbe? Nach Rawls Meinung nicht, denn hat man erst einmal akzeptiert, dass es »um das gegenseitige Anerkennen von Prinzipien d...

This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls.“The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general ...

This guide explains Rawls's concept of 'justice as fairness'. It covers such topics as the two principles of justice, the principle of fairness, the original position and the veil of ignorance, and the difference principle, as well as examining some of the criticisms levelled at Rawls's arguments.