Helen McCabe considers the arguments over Rawls’ theory of justice. Justice, Harvard philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002) claimed, is the first virtue of institutions. Certainly justice seems to be the ...

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 ...

This joke grew into a full musical production entitled John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical! So thanks to Eylon Aslan-Levy, Ramin Sabi, and Tommy Peto, we have the first ever musical ...

When John Rawls, leading political philosopher and ... the Guardian’s obituary had this to say about his most important book, A Theory of Justice: “At heart, A Theory of Justice is concerned ...

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 ...

John Rawls has developed one the most comprehensive social contractarian systems of justice. Any contractarian theory faces the problem of how to get the contracting parties to form preferences for ...

无知之幕（英语：veil of ignorance）是一种思想实验，用以探讨共生社会下的道德问题。其概念在1955年被经济学家约翰·夏仙义提出 [1] [2] ，并为政治哲学家约翰·罗尔斯在1971年于著作《正义论》中正式以“无知之幕”或“原初状态（英语：original position）”称呼该 ...

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 ...

For much of its history, the socialist movement drew on Marxism as its guiding framework. In recent decades, however, Marxist ...

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