John 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, ...

Asked to describe John Rawls, his old friend and fellow philosopher, Rogers Albritton said, "My principle sense of Jack is of a man who has an incredibly fine moral sense in his dealings with other ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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?

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 ...

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) ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- John Bordley Rawls died Sunday at the age of 81. Previously, when asked to describe Rawls, his old friend and fellow philosopher Rogers Albritton said: "My principal sense ...