The biography of James Stoner, the conference’s third speaker: “Professor James R. Stoner, Jr. has teaching and research interests in political theory, English common law, and American ...

John Rawls, who died on November 24, raised modern political philosophy from the pit of Marxist and linguistic analysis and revived it as a serious subject for citizens of the real world. He believed ...

The Original Position presented in John Rawls' (1921–2002) "A Theory of Justice" (1971) and the "Veil of Ignorance" are the ...

Theologians care about justice. So do philosophers. But they don’t talk to each other about it very much. Harvard professors Eric Nelson and Katrina Forrester offer pathways to bridge this gap—each in ...

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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, ...

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, the British philosopher Jonathan Wolff recently observed that while there might be a dispute about the second most important political philosopher of the 20th ...

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 ...

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, ...

In December of 1944, on the Philippine island of Leyte, the soldiers of F Company of the 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division, dug in. Stationed just outside the town of Limon, they were attempting ...

John Rawls, 81, a Harvard University emeritus professor who was an internationally recognized authority on 20th-century political philosophy and legal theory, died Nov. 24 at his home in Lexington, ...