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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?

A central aim of the dissertation is to dismantle the myth that A Theory of Justice appeared as a radical break from earlier traditions. Galisanka shows that Rawls’s project was shaped by gradual ...

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 ...

urious about how free markets and social justice intersect? Join us for an engaging lecture by Christopher Freiman, author of the book Unequivocal Justice. Freiman offers a rethinking of the political ...

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 ...

Today is the 100th birthday of the late John Rawls, probably the most significant political philosopher of the 20th century. Rawls' most important and influential works were A Theory of Justice (1971) ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It is hard to recall another work of philosophy, in this century or any other, which has enjoyed such ...

Harvard University Professor John Rawls, who died in 2002, has been called the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century - certainly for Democrats. His 1971 book, "A Theory of ...