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1 day ago · John Bordley Rawls (/ r ɔː l z /; 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.
23 hours ago · A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory uses an updated form of ...
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1 day ago · To enroll in this course click https://www.upschool.co/all-courses/On a sunny day in his Harvard classroom, philosopher John Rawls invited his students to im...
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23 hours ago · Videos: “John Rawls and After” (Harvard University, 2019) Seyla Benhabib awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize; Ute & Jürgen Habermas on Günter Fruhtrunk; Habermas turns 95 [updated] New book: Rawls’s "A Theory of Justice" at 50
2 days ago · 25 Despite the differences in their respective interpretation, many refined interpreters subscribe to this view, such as Carlo Galli, David Dyzenhaus, and John McCormick. As I will illustrate, two deft summaries can be found in Vinx, ‘Hans Kelsen and the Material Constitution of Democracy’, 14-9, and Alessandro Ferrara, Sovereignty Across Generations , 103-23.
1 day ago · Regarding politics, the most influential draw either on Jürgen Habermas’ notion of deliberative democracy (e.g., Scherer & Palazzo, 2007), John Rawls’s theory of justice (e.g., Mäkinen & Kourula, 2012), or Antonio Gramsci’s conception of hegemony (e.g., Levy et al., 2016).
3 days ago · Here, the author turns his attention to the political ideas of political philosopher John Rawls, whose intellectual work, many believe, underpins the very basis of a just society. Rawls asks us to imagine what kind of a government we would choose if none of us knew what our race, gender, intelligence, or any other aspects of our lives before birth.
