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?

Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution ...

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) ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from an interview with BR Coeditor Joshua Cohen, conducted by Seth Rensler of Occupy the Airwaves. Seth Resler: John Rawls’s magnum opus is A Theory of Justice, ...

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 ...

Curious 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 ...

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Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 75, Fasc. 1, Ética e Política Contemporânea: Ressonâncias Kantianas / Contemporary Ethics and Politics: Kant Resonances (2019), pp. 375-390 (16 pages) The aim of ...

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 ...

Professor of philosophy and law at the University of Pennsylvania, and the editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Rawls" and "The Collected Papers of John Rawls" Assistant professor of philosophy at ...