Before his death in 2002, Rawls was arguably the foremost proponent of “distributive justice.” In A Theory of Justice, he offered a thought experiment.Imagine you and a group of other people ...

It is, in Rawls’s words, a theory of Justice as Fairness. Among much else, 1971 was the year of the Pentagon Papers, the My Lai massacre convictions and Nixon’s détente with China. It seems ...

A Theory of Justice, his most famous work, has been cited nearly 60,000 times by one metric. This year marks its 50th anniversary, with conferences on the occasion at University of Virginia Law ...

John Rawls follows the “democratic equality view” for the way of dividing social and economic profits. The democratic equality view is the way of dividing with a combination of the equal ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, first published in 1971, a work that's been called the most influential book in 20th-century political philosophy.

From the trauma of the Second World War there emerged some important works in political theory, including Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of ...

Rawls’ theory places a strong emphasis on distributive justice, aiming to rectify social and economic inequalities through fair distribution of resources and opportunities.

The concept, so-called, of “two principles of justice”, is synonymous with the name of John Rawls, a highly influential American liberal political philosopher of the last century. It forms the ...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a changemaker in the philosophy of justice, is one of Vox’s Future Perfect 50 for 2023. This annual list highlights 50 people who are making the world a better place ...