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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 20th century, the concept took on new life with the publication of John Rawls’ influential book A Theory of Justice, which framed justice as a matter of “fairness”, a virtue of impartial ...

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

Fairness as a theory of justice was proposed by philosopher John Rawls. There’s also a surprise in attempting fairness: infectious joy. It invites laughter because before you succeed ...

Sophia Moreau brings together law and philosophy to counter systemic discrimination.

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 ...

Kane and Langston Patterson were both stars at CPA football. Younger brother Rawls Patterson now stars at running back for ...