While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. John Rawls in 1987. What would a fair society look ...

The answer lies in the work of the towering 20th-century political philosopher John Rawls. In his epoch-defining treatise “A Theory of Justice, ...

From the trauma of the Second World War there emerged some important works in political theory, including Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of ...

Rawls’s communitarian critics focused on one aspect of his liberalism: the abstract, unencumbered model of the reasoning self at the heart of A Theory of Justice. For Rawls, the way to establish the ...

The Rawls that emerges here is at least as concerned with dignity and power as the schedule of marginal tax rates. The insistence that the just economy is that which does best by the worst-off flows ...

While we cannot change the world with dreams alone, moral ideas can inspire people to come together and change their societies for the better. John Rawls in 1987.(Frederic Reglain / Gammo-Rapho ...