The core elements of modern democracy are citizens who share equally in mutually-compatible basic rights, serve as the final decision-makers on the community’s constitution, and choose whom to be entrusted with legislative and executive powers, while at the same time wielding final veto power over the present government. The rule of the majority in modern democracy is no longer a fundamental principle, but rather a derivative principle the validity of which is based on the above-mentioned core elements.

本书是作者从近年来在国内外重要学术刊物上发表的论文中精选出的15篇论文。这些论文均围绕一个主题,即从正义的视角分析正义与政治哲学、与中国社会的关系.