December 6, 2002
The Life and Work of the Political Philosopher John Rawls
John Rawls, who died on November 24, almost single-handedly revived the Anglo-American study of political philosophy and ethics from a half century of slumber. His classic book, A Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971), argued that we should scrutinize our beliefs about liberty and equality by imagining what sorts of ground rules we would want before we entered a hypothetical society from behind a "veil of ignorance" -- that is, without knowing what our race, gender, or
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