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A Theory of Justice

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ISBN 9780674000780

Publication: September 1999

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560 pages

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    • Preface for the Revised Edition
    • Preface
    • Part One. Theory
      • Chapter I. Justice as Fairness
        • 1. The Role of Justice
        • 2. The Subject of Justice
        • 3. The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice
        • 4. The Original Position and Justification
        • 5. Classical Utilitarianism
        • 6. Some Related Contrasts
        • 7. Intuitionism
        • 8. The Priority Problem
        • 9. Some Remarks about Moral Theory
      • Chapter II. The Principles of Justice
        • 10. Institutions and Formal Justice
        • 11. Two Principles of Justice
        • 12. Interpretations of the Second Principle
        • 13. Democratic Equality and the Difference Principle
        • 14. Fair Equality of Opportunity and Pure Procedural Justice
        • 15. Primary Social Goods as the Basis of Expectations
        • 16. Relevant Social Positions
        • 17. The Tendency to Equality
        • 18. Principles for Individuals: The Principle of Fairness
        • 19. Principles for Individuals: The Natural Duties
      • Chapter III. The Original Position
        • 20. The Nature of the Argument for Conceptions of Justice
        • 21. The Presentation of Alternatives
        • 22. The Circumstances of Justice
        • 23. The Formal Constraints of the Concept of Right
        • 24. The Veil of Ignorance
        • 25. The Rationality of the Parties
        • 26. The Reasoning Leading to the Two Principles of Justice
        • 27. The Reasoning Leading to the Principle of Average Utility
        • 28. Some Difficulties with the Average Principle
        • 29. Some Main Grounds for the Two Principles of Justice
        • 30. Classical Utilitarianism, Impartiality, and Benevolence
    • Part Two. Institutions
      • Chapter IV. Equal Liberty
        • 31. The Four-Stage Sequence
        • 32. The Concept of Liberty
        • 33. Equal Liberty of Conscience
        • 34. Toleration and the Common Interest
        • 35. Toleration of the Intolerant
        • 36. Political Justice and the Constitution
        • 37. Limitations on the Principle of Participation
        • 38. The Rule of Law
        • 39. The Priority of Liberty Defined
        • 40. The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness
      • Chapter V. Distributive Shares
        • 41. The Concept of Justice in Political Economy
        • 42. Some Remarks about Economic Systems
        • 43. Background Institutions for Distributive Justice
        • 44. The Problem of Justice between Generations
        • 45. Time Preference
        • 46. Further Cases of Priority
        • 47. The Precepts of Justice
        • 48. Legitimate Expectations and Moral Desert
        • 49. Comparison with Mixed Conceptions
        • 50. The Principle of Perfection
      • Chapter VI. Duty and Obligation
        • 51. The Arguments for the Principles of Natural Duty
        • 52. The Arguments for the Principle of Fairness
        • 53. The Duty to Comply with an Unjust Law
        • 54. The Status of Majority Rule
        • 55. The Definition of Civil Disobedience
        • 56. The Definition of Conscientious Refusal
        • 57. The Justification of Civil Disobedience
        • 58. The Justification of Conscientious Refusal
        • 59. The Role of Civil Disobedience
    • Part Three. Ends
      • Chapter VII. Goodness and Rationality
        • 60. The Need for a Theory of the Good
        • 61. The Definition of Good for Simpler Cases
        • 62. A Note on Meaning
        • 63. The Definition of Good for Plans of Life
        • 64. Deliberative Rationality
        • 65. The Aristotelian Principle
        • 66. The Definition of Good Applied to Persons
        • 67. Self-Respect, Excellences, and Shame
        • 68. Several Contrasts between the Right and the Good
      • Chapter VIII. The Sense of Justice
        • 69. The Concept of a Well-Ordered Society
        • 70. The Morality of Authority
        • 71. The Morality of Association
        • 72. The Morality of Principles
        • 73. Features of the Moral Sentiments
        • 74. The Connection between Moral and Natural Attitudes
        • 75. The Principles of Moral Psychology
        • 76. The Problem of Relative Stability
        • 77. The Basis of Equality
      • Chapter IX. The Good of Justice
        • 78. Autonomy and Objectivity
        • 79. The Idea of Social Union
        • 80. The Problem of Envy
        • 81. Envy and Equality
        • 82. The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty
        • 83. Happiness and Dominant Ends
        • 84. Hedonism as a Method of Choice
        • 85. The Unity of the Self
        • 86. The Good of the Sense of Justice
        • 87. Concluding Remarks on Justification
    • Conversion Table
    • Index