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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
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- Author
- John Rawls
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198243687
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (136 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap) (1999)
- A Theory of Justice : Original Edition (1971)
- A Theory Of Justice Revised Edition,john (1999)
- A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Oxford Paperbacks 301 301) (1971)
- A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Oxford Paperbacks 301 301) (2005)
- A Theory of Justice (1971)
- A Theory Of Justice (1985)
- A Theory Of Justice Revised Edition,john (2012)