A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice is a book of political and moral philosophy by John Rawls. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in 1975 (for the translated editions) and in 1999. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls lays out his own moral theory, called "Justice as Fairness", and his two famous principles of justice, the liberty principle and the difference principle.

Bibliography

• John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Revised edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1999), ISBN 0-674-00077-3.
• Reading Rawls: Critical Studies of A Theory of Justice, edited by Normal Daniels (New York: Basic Books, 1974), ISBN 465-06854-5.
• Chandran Kukathas & Philip Petit, Rawls: A Theory of Justice and its Critics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), ISBN 1-8047-1768-0.