John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is often treated as a fully formed philosophical monument, a sudden intervention that ...

As liberal democracy spreads across more and more of the globe, the influence of John Rawls seems likely to spread. Rawls, who died on November 24 at age 82, wrote the 20th century’s most complete ...

John Rawls, who died on November 24, raised modern political philosophy from the pit of Marxist and linguistic analysis and revived it as a serious subject for citizens of the real world. He believed ...

Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark The American debate over Iran rumbles on as the summer draws to a close. We are all ...

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It is hard to recall another work of philosophy, in this century or any other, which has enjoyed such ...

The philosopher John Rawls has died at 81. It’s well known that he had an enormous influence on academic discussions of social, political, and economic justice: His 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is ...

Since the death of John Rawls last week at the age of 82, many eulogistic pieces have appeared in the press hailing him as the greatest political philosopher of his time. Virtually all of them cited ...

John Rawls, the American political theorist whose work gave new meaning and resonance to the concepts of justice and liberalism, died Sunday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 81. His wife, ...

Arts Uproars: Open, Shut, Fired, Down for the Count, and Nowhere to Be Found Manchán Magan, Keeper of the Irish Language Audio By Carbonatix I wonder what John Rawls would think of the market for ...

David Lewis Schaefer's opinion piece on John Rawls ("Justice and Inequality," July 23) reminded me of an epiphany I had in college in the late '70s. Then, as now, social justice and inequality were ...