John Rawls, a political philosopher who shaped late 20th century notions of social justice with ideas that guided debates over topics from affirmative action and welfare to physician-assisted suicide, ...

Asked to describe John Rawls, his old friend and fellow philosopher, Rogers Albritton said, "My principle sense of Jack is of a man who has an incredibly fine moral sense in his dealings with other ...

John Rawls, who died on November 24, almost single-handedly revived the Anglo-American study of political philosophy and ethics from a half century of slumber. His classic book, A Theory of Justice ...

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 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; ...

Since the death of John Rawls last week at the age of 82, many eulogistic pieces have appeared in the press hailing him as the greatest political philosopher of his time. Virtually all of them cited ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- John Bordley Rawls died Sunday at the age of 81. Previously, when asked to describe Rawls, his old friend and fellow philosopher Rogers Albritton said: "My principal sense ...

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) ...

CAMBRIDGE (USA), Nov 28: John Rawls, a towering figure of 20th century political philosophy who embraced the rights of the individual over the greater good of society, has died at the age of 81, ...

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, ...