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?

The philosopher John Rawls has died at 81. It’s well known that he had an enormous influence on academic discussions of social, political, and economic justice: His 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, is ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from an interview with BR Coeditor Joshua Cohen, conducted by Seth Rensler of Occupy the Airwaves. Seth Resler: John Rawls’s magnum opus is A Theory of Justice, ...

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 ...