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 ...

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 egalitarian theories of scholars such as ...

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 ...

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 ... the various feminist objections do not invalidate a liberal approach to the theory of justice: in fact, liberal theories can ...

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 ...

The Veil of Ignorance is a thought experiment and philosophical concept introduced by the American philosopher John Rawls in ...

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 ...

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 ...