From the Republic, written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, to A Theory of Justice, written by the contemporary Harvard philosopher John Rawls, every major work on ethics has held that justice ...

Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 55, Issue. 2, p. 167. This is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls's leading theory of distributive justice, which also considers the responding ...

The Teals have, either wittingly or unwittingly, tapped into a widespread concern at the way politics has lost its way.

It is possible to hold the view, more than six decades after Galbraith’s claim, that the idea of inequality is today at the ...

Because John Rawls's work on justice has such fundamental importance, feminists have scrutinized it with particular care and have made many criticisms. Rawls himself has become deeply concerned with ...

There is no justice in nature — only adaptability. Justice seems to be a purely human concern. The philosopher John Rawls said, “Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is ...

Can climate change and global poverty be tackled while shoring up the middle-class in rich economies? Current policy ...

In the 1970s, Harvard philosopher John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, forever changing the landscape of political philosophy. He purposely does not give a clear answer; rather, Rawls ...