John Rawls
American philosopher
John Bordley Rawls was an American 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. Wikipedia
Born: February 21, 1921, Baltimore, MD
Died: November 24, 2002 (age 81 years), Lexington, MA
Influenced: Ronald Dworkin, Amartya Sen, Michael Sandel, and more
Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Isaiah Berlin, and more
Awards: Rolf Schock Prizes (1999) and National Humanities Medal (1999)
Children: Anne Warfield Rawls
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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 ...
John Bordley Rawls (/rɔːlz/; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition.
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 ...
Following graduation, Rawls served army stints in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan during World War II. He returned to Princeton in 1946. During the final ...
Original Position - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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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 ...
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Professor Rawls is arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. In many ways, he was single-handedly responsible for the ...
John Rawls, American political and ethical philosopher, best known for his defense of egalitarian liberalism in his major works A Theory of Justice (1971) ...
May 19, 2005 · In the academy, Rawls's work has engaged the attention of scholars in economics, political science, sociology, and the law, and stimulated ...
John Rawls's Veil of Ignorance is probably one of the most influential philosophical ideas of the 20th century. The Veil of Ignorance is a way of working ...