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.

Aliases (2)

John Bordley Rawls ×1
Rawls ×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	Rawls →
fieldOfWork	ethics → moral philosophy → political philosophy →
fullName	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, Maryland, United States →
placeOfDeath	Lexington, Massachusetts, United States →
positionHeld	James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University →
publicationDateOfWork	1971: A Theory of Justice → 1993: Political Liberalism → 1999: The Law of Peoples → 2001: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement →
religion	Episcopalian (early life) → agnosticism (later life) →
servedIn	United States Army →
spouse	Margaret Fox Rawls →

Referenced by (23)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Democracy and Education → Henry Sidgwick → Immanuel Kant → John Stuart Mill → John Stuart Mill → Kantianism → On Liberty → The Social Contract →	influenced
John Tomasi → Martha Nussbaum → Michael Walzer → Ronald Dworkin → Seyla Benhabib → The Idea of Justice →	influencedBy
A Theory of Justice → Justice as Fairness: A Restatement → Political Liberalism → Political Liberalism → The Law of Peoples →	author
veil of ignorance →	developedBy
John Rawls ("Rawls") →	familyName
John Rawls ("John Bordley Rawls") →	fullName
Princeton University Press →	notableAuthorPublished