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 ...

The allegation that liberals neglect the value of community has a long – some would say notorious – history. Rawls's A Theory of Justice, immediately acclaimed as the most systematic and sophisticated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Justice, as defined by Aristotle, is the principle that equals should be treated equally, whereas unequals are appropriately treated unequally. In the 20th century, the concept took on new life with ...

For much of its history, the socialist movement drew on Marxism as its guiding framework. In recent decades, however, Marxist ...

As liberal thought has evolved to address capitalism's flaws, some argue it has caught up with Marxism, rendering it ...

Its members and affiliates (mainly from LSE Law School but also other LSE Departments and institutions) conduct research on various aspects of criminal law and criminal justice from a variety of ...

String theory proclaims otherwise. According to string theory, if we could examine these particles with even greater precision—a precision many orders of magnitude beyond our present ...

The innate sense of fairness and justice that is observed among human subjects in many laboratory experiments on game theory may have such an origin. In football, when an offense faces a third ...