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John Bordley Rawls (/ rɔːlz /; [2] February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. [3][4] Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. [5]
Mar 25, 2008 · John Rawls (b. 1921, d. 2002) was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition. His theory of justice as fairness describes a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights and cooperating within an egalitarian economic system.
John Rawls, American political and ethical philosopher, best known for his defense of egalitarian liberalism in his major works A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993). He is widely considered the most important political philosopher of the 20th century.
John Rawls was arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. He wrote a series of highly influential articles in the 1950s and ’60s that helped refocus Anglo-American moral and political philosophy on substantive problems about what we ought to do.
Examines John Rawls' principles of justice, focusing on equal liberty and the difference principle, advocating for a society where fairness prevails through equal rights and positive discrimination to benefit the least advantaged.
Jan 22, 2019 · It’s been nearly 50 years since the political philosopher John Rawls published his groundbreaking “Theory of Justice,” articulating the connection between justice and equal rights.
Dec 20, 2008 · The original position is a central feature of John Rawls’s social contract account of justice, “justice as fairness,” set forth in A Theory of Justice (TJ). The original position is designed to be a fair and impartial point of view that is to be adopted in our reasoning about fundamental principles of justice.
John Rawls, (born Feb. 21, 1921, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Nov. 24, 2002, Lexington, Mass.), U.S. political philosopher. He taught at Cornell University (1962–79) and later at Harvard University. He wrote primarily on political philosophy and ethics.
John Rawls (b. 1921–d. 2002) was the leading Anglo-American political philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. In his seminal 1971 book, A Theory of Justice (revised edition, Rawls 1999c, cited under Primary Texts), Rawls defends a liberal theory of social and political justice that he called “justice as fairness” as an ...
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory ofJustice has become a classic. The author has now revised theoriginal edition to clear up a number of dif...
