The American philosopher John Rawls (born 1921) was one of the most important political philosophers in the late 20th century. His A Theory of Justice developed principles of justice for a liberal society and challenged utilitarian political...

John Rawls was, by any reasonable standard, the most influential political theorist of the twentieth century. Despite this status, he maintained an uncommon humility, as his sole autobiographical statement, quoted in Steve Pyke's Philosophers (1995),...

Bordley John Rawls (1921–2002) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, educated in philosophy at Princeton University, and served in the military in the Pacific theater during World War II. He taught at Cornell University and at the...

John Rawls (b. 1921), a Harvard professor of philosophy, is without doubt one of the very few creative and influential writers of political theory in the contemporary West. His most important work, A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, was a major...

Rawls, John(1921–2002) John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century. Educated at Princeton University, he taught at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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JOHN RAWLS entered Princeton University at the outbreak of the Second World War. He completed his college degree a semester early, but this accelerated pace did not keep him from having a full college life, including athletics-he was a "four letter man," a member...

The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame and celebrity perks his prominence naturally invited. But his genius, not his goodness, is...