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Consider: “…………We believe that as a matter of principle each -number of society has an inviolability founded on justice.” (Rawls)

  • UPSC 1999
  • Justice

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The claim is the moral core of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971). It opens §1, where the inviolability is one "that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override", and returns in §6 as a considered conviction that utilitarianism cannot account for and a sound theory of justice must.

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