Contents
PREFACE FOR THE REVISED EDITION x1
PREFACE xvii
Part One. Theory
CHAPTER I. JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS 3
1. The Role of Justice 3
2. The Subject of Justice 6
3. The Main Idea of the Theory of Justice 10
4. The Original Position and Justification 15
5. Classical Utilitarianism 19
6. Some Related Contrasts 24
7. Intuitionism 30
8. The Priority Problem 36
9. Some Remarks about Moral Theory 40
CHAPTER II. THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE 47
10. Institutions and Formal Justice 47
11. Two Principles of Justice 52
12. Interpretations of the Second Principle 57
13. Democratic Equality and the Difference Principle 65
14. Fair Equality of Opportunity and Pure Procedural Justice 73
15. Primary Social Goods as the Basis of Expectations 78
16. Relevant Social Positions 81
17. The Tendency to Equality 86
18. Principles for Individuals : The Principle of Fairness 93
19. Principles forlndividuals : The Natural Duties 98
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGINAL POSITION 102
20. The Nature of the Argument for Conceptions of Justice 102
21. The Presentation of Alternatives • 105
22. The Circumstances of Justice 109
23. The Formal Constraints of the Concept of Right 112
24. The Veil of Ignorance 118
25. The Rationality of the Parties 123
26. The Reasoning Leading to the Two Principles of Justice 130
27. The Reasoning Leading to the Principle of Average Utility 139
28. Some Difficulties with the Average Principle 144
29. Some Main Grounds for the Two Principles of Justice 152
30. Classical Utilitarianism, Impartiality, and Benevolence 159
Part Two. Institutions
CHAPTER IV. EQUAL LIBERTY 171
31. The Four-Stage Sequence 171
32. The Concept of Liberty 176
33. Equal Liberty of Conscience 180
34. Toleration and the Common Interest 186
35. Toleration of the Intolerant 190
36. Political Justice and the Constitution 194
37. . Limitations on the Principle of Participation 200
38. The Rule of Law 206
39. The Priority of Liberty Defined 214
40. The Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness 221
CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES 228
41. The Concept of Justice in Political Economy 228
42. Some Remarks about Economic Systems 234
43. Background Institutions for Distributive Justice 242
44. The Problem of Justice between Generations 251
45 . Time Preference 259
46. Further Cases of Priority 263
47. The Precepts of Justice 267
48. Legitimate Expectations and Moral Desert 273
49. Comparison with Mixed Conceptions 277
50. The Principle of Perfection 285
CHAPTER VI. DUTY AND OBLIGATION 293
51. The Arguments for the Principles of Natural Duty 293
52. The Arguments for the Principle of Fairness 301
53. The Duty to Comply with an Unjust Law 308
54. The Status of Majority Rule 313
55. The Definition of Civil Disobedience 319
56. The Definition of Conscientious Refusal 323
57. The Justification of Civil Disobedience 326
58. The Justification of Conscientious Refusal 331
59. The Role of Civil Disobedience 335
Part Three. Ends
CHAPTER VII. GOODNESS AS RATIONALITY 347
60. The Need for a Theory of the Good 347
61. The Definition of Good for Simpler Cases 350
62. A Note on Meaning 355
63. The Definition of Good for Plans of Life 358
64. Deliberative Rationality 365
65. The Aristotelian Principle 372
66. The Definition of Good Applied to Persons 380
67. Self-Respect, Excellences, and Shame 386
68. Several Contrasts between the Right and the Good 392
CHAPTER VIII. THE SENSE OF JUSTICE 397
69. The Concept of a Well-Ordered Society 397
70. The Morality of Authority 405
71. The Morality of Association 409
72. The Morality of Principles 414
73. Features of the Moral Sentiments 420
74. The Connection between Moral and Natural Attitudes 425
75. The Principles of Moral Psychology 429
76. The Problem of Relative Stability 434
77. The Basis of Equality 441
CHAPTER IX. THE GOOD OF JUSTICE 450
78. Autonomy and Objectivity 450
79. The Idea of Social Union 456
80. The Problem of Envy 464
81. Envy and Equality 468
82. The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty 474
83. Happiness and Dominant Ends 480
84. Hedonism as a Method of Choice 486
85. The Unity of the Self 491
86. The Good of the Sense of Justice 496
87. Concluding Remarks on Justification 506
Conversion Table 517
Index 521