Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution to benefit the least well-off. Robert Nozick opposed this view, arguing for ...
Imagine a human society not so very different from our own, on which a cataclysm is about to fall. Thousands, perhaps millions, of people will die. Many others will lead shorter and less happy lives; ...
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In his understanding of justice as fairness, John Rawls (1921–2002) proposed a striking and original marriage of liberty and equality, animated by a tolerant and democratic faith in human ...
“He (Rawls) believed that the challenges to social contract theory that had been leveled previously could be overcome,” Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of public policy leadership at the ...
The book which gave birth to modern political philosophy? Anne McElvoy asks why John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is still so influential, 50 years after it was first published. Show more In his 1971 ...
In his 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argued that just societies should allow everyone to enjoy basic liberties while limiting inequality and improving the lives of the least well off. He ...
What Makes a Good Lecture? New Thinking: Eco-Criticism Patricia Lockwood and André Aciman Class and social mobility New Thinking: Fashion Stories in Museums Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871) Coins, ...
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