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, ...

While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. John Rawls in 1987. What would a fair society look like?

In the mid-1980s, many Americans began to worry that religious pressures were slowly distorting American institutions. The growing political influence of the religious right made many fear values of ...

Imagine, for a minute, you had no prior knowledge of your race, economic condition, sexuality, gender identity, or even birthplace. You are a sentient adult, but these crucial aspects of life have yet ...

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 ...

John Rawls, one of the 20 th century’s most notable political philosophers, proposed a theory of distributive justice known as justice as fairness. According to his theory, once a society successfully ...

While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. John Rawls in 1987.(Frederic Reglain / Gammo-Rapho via ...