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John Bordley Rawls (/ r ɔː l z /; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was a moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.
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. His theory of political liberalism explores the legitimate use of political power in a democracy ...
Apr 30, 2024 · 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.
Mar 25, 2008 · John Rawls. First published Tue Mar 25, 2008. John Rawls (b. 1921, d. 2002) was an American political philosopher in the liberal tradition. His theory of justice as fairness envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights cooperating within an egalitarian economic system.
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.
Jan 22, 2019 · Clea Simon. Harvard Correspondent. January 22, 2019 4 min read. ‘Inequality, Religion, and Society’ examines works of John Rawls. 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.
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