John Rawls

John Rawls, American philosopher and professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999), and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001). He is widely regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century. His political theory proposes two principles on which to base the notion of justice from an original position in the contractarian spirit of classical political philosophers.

Rawls was awarded the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton.

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