“He (Rawls) believed that the challenges to social contract theory that had been leveled previously could be overcome,” Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of public policy leadership at the ...

Amy Gutmann, provost of Princeton University and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, studied with John Rawls. The philosopher John ...

ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Vol. 84, No. 3 (1998), pp. 383-391 (9 pages) In modern political philosophy social contract ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...