Before his death in 2002, Rawls was arguably the foremost proponent of “distributive justice.” In A Theory of Justice, he offered a thought experiment. Imagine you and a group of other people ...

The Justice Department charged six people for working to defraud ... Two others that worked alongside him, Antwann C.K. Rawls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whereas some philosophers, such as John Rawls, have been criticized for describing an approach ... limit case for the ...

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

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

James Rawls, historian The name of the law sounds ... and take that charge before a justice of the peace, and a justice of the peace would then have those Indians seized and sold at public auction.

The winners own the emotional power of a word or phrase. The others find themselves on the defensive and have to use less ...

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election may very well mean an end to democracy in the near future ...