John Rawls

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American philosopher human moral philosopher political philosopher

John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher best known for his theory of justice as fairness, which profoundly shaped contemporary liberal political thought.

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Label	Occurrences
John Rawls canonical	40
Rawls	2
John Bordley Rawls	1
John Rawls (visiting scholar, associated with college)	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ moral philosopher ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts ⓘ Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ
awardReceived	National Humanities Medal ⓘ Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart failure ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1921-02-21 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2002-11-24 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Norman Malcolm ⓘ
educatedAt	Kent School ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ
employer	Cornell University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
familyName	John Rawls self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Rawls
fieldOfWork	ethics ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ
fullName	John Rawls self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: John Bordley Rawls
givenName	John ⓘ
influenced	Amartya Sen ⓘ Brian Barry ⓘ John Tomasi ⓘ Joshua Cohen ⓘ Jürgen Habermas ⓘ Martha Nussbaum ⓘ Ronald Dworkin ⓘ Thomas Nagel ⓘ
influencedBy	David Hume ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ John Locke ⓘ
movement	liberalism ⓘ political liberalism ⓘ
notableIdea	justice as fairness ⓘ original position ⓘ overlapping consensus ⓘ public reason ⓘ reflective equilibrium ⓘ two principles of justice ⓘ veil of ignorance ⓘ
notableWork	A Theory of Justice ⓘ Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ⓘ Political Liberalism ⓘ The Law of Peoples ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Baltimore ⓘ surface form: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
placeOfDeath	Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld	James B. Conant ⓘ surface form: James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University
publicationDateOfWork	A Theory of Justice ⓘ surface form: 1971: A Theory of Justice 1993: Political Liberalism ⓘ The Law of Peoples ⓘ surface form: 1999: The Law of Peoples Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ⓘ surface form: 2001: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
religion	Episcopalian (early life) ⓘ agnosticism (later life) ⓘ
servedIn	United States Army ⓘ
spouse	Margaret Fox Rawls ⓘ

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John Stuart Mill → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

Immanuel Kant → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

The Social Contract → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

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On Liberty → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

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Martha Nussbaum → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

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Michael Walzer → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

Henry Sidgwick → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

The Law of Peoples → author → John Rawls ⓘ

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement → author → John Rawls ⓘ

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A Theory of Justice → author → John Rawls ⓘ

Political Liberalism → author → John Rawls ⓘ

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Ronald Dworkin → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

Democracy and Education → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

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Brian Barry → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

Frontiers of Justice → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

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Onora O’Neill → doctoralAdvisor → John Rawls ⓘ

Thomas McCarthy → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

H. A. Prichard → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

James Bohman → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

Margaret Fox Rawls → spouseOf → John Rawls ⓘ

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Joshua Cohen → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

John Searle → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

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Michael Sandel → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

Sidgwick → influenced → John Rawls ⓘ

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G. A. Cohen → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

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"Equality and Partiality" → influencedBy → John Rawls ⓘ

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