John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.
Background
- Born in
- Baltimore
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityCalvert SchoolKent School
- Awards
- 🏆 Spitz Prize🏆 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Walter Terence Stace
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Susan Neiman📖 Thomas Nagel📖 Elizabeth S. Anderson
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Trending topics shown first"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on John Rawls by Leif Wenar"
"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutio…"
"In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage."
"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Reflective Equilibrium by Norman Daniels"
"The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results."
"An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself."
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Timeline
1921
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