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In his A Theory of Justice, John Rawls used a social contract argument to show that justice, and especially distributive justice, is a form of fairness: an impartial distribution of goods.
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Theory and Justice
In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, noteworthy in its pursuit of moral arguments and eschewing of meta-ethics.
John Rawls was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples.
From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.
In Anglo-American academic political philosophy, the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971 is considered a milestone.
* John Rawls: Revitalized the study of normative political philosophy in Anglo-American universities with his 1971 book A Theory of Justice, which uses a version of social contract theory to answer fundamental questions about justice and to criticise utilitarianism.
He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia ( 1974 ), a libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ).
Nozick thus challenged the partial conclusion of John Rawls's Second Principle of Justice of his A Theory of Justice, that " social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are to be of greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society.
* Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law ( Oxford Political Theory ), Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
The objection that ‘ utilitarianism does not take seriously the distinction between persons ’ came to prominence in 1971 with the publication of John Rawls ’ A Theory of Justice.
Robert Nozick and John Rawls expressed competing visions in Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and Rawls ' A Theory of Justice.
John Rawls ( 1921 – 2002 ) proposed a contractarian approach that has a decidedly Kantian flavour, in A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ), whereby rational people in a hypothetical " original position ", setting aside their individual preferences and capacities under a " veil of ignorance ", would agree to certain general principles of justice and legal organization.
His first statement of principle was made in A Theory of Justice where he proposed that, " Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.
Offering an alternative, Nussbaum cites John Rawls's work in A Theory of Justice to highlight " an example of a rational argument ; it can be said to yield, in a perfectly recognizable sense, ethical truth.
The day after his guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, it was announced that Spiner would guest-star in the Young Justice episode " Revelation ", providing the voice of the Joker.
* Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law ( Oxford Political Theory ), Oxford University Press, 2007.
Theory and John
John Bardeen then argued in the 1955 paper, " Theory of the Meissner Effect in Superconductors " that such a modification naturally occurs in a theory with an energy gap.
Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.
* Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation by John C. Martin McGraw Hill 1996 ( 2nd edition )
* John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation, Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading Massachusetts, 1979.
Irving Fisher in his 1930 book " The Theory of Interest " and John Burr Williams's 1938 text ' The Theory of Investment Value ' first formally expressed the DCF method in modern economic terms.
The field dates from the 1944 classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes authored a book entitled The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money outlining the key theories of Keynesian economics.
The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).
Perhaps the first elaborate and systematic exposition was by John Venn, in The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability ( published editions in 1866, 1876, 1888 ).
* Kenneth E. Boulding, cofounder of the General Systems Theory, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Collier was influenced by An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World by " Cambridge Platonist " John Norris ( 1701 ).
The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.
* " Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multiservice Networks: Theory and Practice " by John Evans, Clarence Filsfils ( Morgan Kaufmann, 2007, ISBN 0-12-370549-5 )
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