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 ...

In the mid-1980s, many Americans began to worry that religious pressures were slowly distorting American institutions. The growing political influence of the religious right made many fear values of ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

ohn Rawls, a political philosopher who shaped late 20th century notions of social justice with ideas that guided debates over topics from affirmative action and welfare to physician-assisted suicide, ...

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 ...

In December of 1944, on the Philippine island of Leyte, the soldiers of F Company of the 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division, dug in. Stationed just outside the town of Limon, they were attempting ...