Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy that explores specific topics such as theories of governance, rights, justice, ...

W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right John Locke, Second Treatise on Government Karl Marx, Capital (Oxford Abridgement) or Volume I John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Plato, Crito John Rawls, Justice as Fairness ...

At its most worthy, the blindfold was a cue for the “veil of ignorance" in John Rawls’ theory of justice that proposes justice as fairness. If people in an “original position" set out to ...

It does them justice. In Old Norse and Sanskrit, one meaning of “fair” is “fit.” In “A Theory of Justice” (1971), the philosopher John Rawls thinks of justice as fairness, as “a symmetry of everyone’s ...

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 ...

In the 20th century, the concept took on new life with the publication of John Rawls’ influential book A Theory of Justice, which framed justice as a matter of “fairness”, a virtue of impartial ...

The GOP Makes Democrats Pay the Price for Trans Insanity I wonder what John Rawls ... his death in 2002, Rawls was arguably the foremost proponent of “distributive justice.” ...

Liberalism is at a turning point. The rise of the far right in Western democracies has challenged liberal values and ...

In the 1970s, Harvard philosopher John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, forever changing the ... and understand the situation with as much fairness as possible, thus setting our leadership ...

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 ...

Cecilia Albin argues that negotiators do not simply pursue their narrow interests or those of their countries, but regularly take principles of justice and fairness into account. Her analysis is based ...

Ed McKenna's work lies at the intersection of economics and philosophy. He is particularly interested in the relationship between philosophical conceptions of justice and fairness and economic ...