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 ...

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A. Cohen was one of the greatest political philosophers of the twentieth century. Here his ideas on what constitutes justice, his critique of John Rawls' view of justice, and his conception of ...

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