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A Theory of JusticeOriginal Edition\nAuthor(s): John Rawls\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: The Belknap Press\nISBN-13: 9780674017726, 978-0674017726\nSynopsis\nJohn Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic traditionjustice as fairnessand 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, Rawlss theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.\n\nThough the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawlss view,.