andreas Fellesdal 260882 Joan RawLS'S THEORY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEPREFACE This essay was submitted in partial fulfillment of the reguirenents of the H.A, in Philosophy et the University of Oslo in August 1962. I woulé like 0 thank several people for the help and support they have given me during the preparation. 1 an particularly grateful to Associate Professor Jon Wetlesen, who has acted as my supervisor. He has provided valuable connents and corrections at various stages, and he has also proposed several improvenants in my language, Ke has spent much time on this, and I hope that it has not been wasted, Purthersore, Tam thankful to my father Dagfinn Fellesdal for reading the manuscript, pointing to confused sentences and thoushts. Also, my thanks go to Elizabeth Bjorn-Hansen, who has given the English a last brush-up, and who has given me support along the way. Philosophie Informationsdienst at the University of Disseldorf kindly provided me with a list of articles related to John Rawis's theory of justice. ‘The preparation of the essay was greatly facilitated by using a word processor, which was kindly made available to me by the Computing Centre for the Faculty of Humanities (HP-data) at the University of oslo. andreas Pollesdal