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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In his best-selling book The Affluent Society, published in 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith had observed: “Few things are more ...

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 ...

Stiglitz discusses Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between “negative” and “positive” freedom. Negative freedom refers to “freedom ...

I wrote a speculative article in 2000 on what I called “the political trilemma of the world economy.” My claim was that ...