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 ...

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 ...

The Veil of Ignorance is a thought experiment and philosophical concept introduced by the American philosopher John Rawls in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Avinash Dixit, John J. F ... 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.

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 ...