John Rawls, the American political theorist whose work gave new meaning and resonance to the concepts of justice and liberalism, died Sunday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 81. His wife, ...

John Rawls, who died on November 24, almost single-handedly revived the Anglo-American study of political philosophy and ethics from a half century of slumber. His classic book, A Theory of Justice ...

The American political philosopher John Rawls was born in 1921 and published A Theory of Justice in 1971. In celebration of these 100th and 50th anniversaries, we provide this reading list of great ...

The philosopher John Rawls has died at 81. It’s well known that he had an enormous influence on academic discussions of social, political, and economic justice: His 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is ...

While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. John Rawls in 1987. What would a fair society look like?

Since the death of John Rawls last week at the age of 82, many eulogistic pieces have appeared in the press hailing him as the greatest political philosopher of his time. Virtually all of them cited ...

As liberal democracy spreads across more and more of the globe, the influence of John Rawls seems likely to spread. Rawls, who died on November 24 at age 82, wrote the 20th century’s most complete ...

John Rawls, who turned 80 this year, is the most distinguished moral and political philosopher of our age. Initially isolated in a world of Anglo-American philosophy preoccupied with questions of ...

Theologians care about justice. So do philosophers. But they don’t talk to each other about it very much. Harvard professors Eric Nelson and Katrina Forrester offer pathways to bridge this gap—each in ...

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, the British philosopher Jonathan Wolff recently observed that while there might be a dispute about the second most important political philosopher of the 20th ...

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