When John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971, he realized there were some loopholes that he tried to cover 22 years ...

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; ...

He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice ...

Today is the 100th birthday of the late John Rawls, probably the most significant political philosopher of the 20th century. Rawls' most important and influential works were A Theory of Justice (1971) ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Rawls, who turned 80 this year, is the most distinguished moral and political philosopher of our age. Initially isolated in a world of Anglo-American philosophy preoccupied with questions of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an ethicist covering values-driven leadership and culture. A dominant way to understand the moral importance of DEI in ...

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, the British philosopher Jonathan Wolff recently observed that while there might be a dispute about the second most important political philosopher of the 20th ...