Reidy, David 2024. Editor's introduction: Special issue—Rawls at 100; Theory at 50. Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 55, Issue. 2, p. 167. This is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls's ...

Before his death in 2002, Rawls was arguably the foremost proponent of “distributive justice.” In A Theory of Justice, he offered a thought experiment. Imagine you and a group of other people ...

This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core In his classes, John Rawls routinely quoted R. G. Collingwood's remark that “the history of political theory ...

John Rawls has developed one the most comprehensive social contractarian systems of justice. Any contractarian theory faces the problem of how to get the contracting parties to form preferences for ...

The answer lies in the work of the towering 20th-century political philosopher John Rawls. In his epoch-defining treatise “A Theory of Justice,” published in 1971, Mr. Rawls set out a humane ...