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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Chen, Jinghua 2024. Rawls's original position and Kant's categorical imperative procedure. South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 43, Issue. 1, p. 42.

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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 ...

The idea of social justice received more attention after John Rawls, an American political philosopher, published A Theory of Justice in 1971. Its guiding principle was that people have 'an equal ...