Theory Of Justice, revised edition

Resumen del libro

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 the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.

Biografía del autor

John Rawls, filósofo estadounidense, y profesor de filosofía política en la Universidad Harvard y autor de Teoría de la Justicia, (1971), Liberalismo Político (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999) y Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001). Es ampliamente considerado como uno de los filósofos políticos más importantes del siglo XX. Su teoría política propone dos principios sobre los cuales basar la noción de justicia a partir de una posición original en el espíritu contractualista de los filósofos políticos clásicos.<br> Rawls fue reconocido con el Premio Schock para lógica y filosofía y con la National Humanities Medal de manos del presidente Bill Clinton.