John Rawls
- Jurist
- John Rawls
- School
- Liberal Theory of Justice
- Theory
- Justice as Fairness; Original Position behind the Veil of Ignorance; two principles — equal basic liberties, and the Difference Principle.
- Quote
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
- Books
A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999)
- Propounded
Justice as Fairness; Original Position behind the Veil of Ignorance; Two Principles of Justice; Difference Principle
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 2002
- Portrait
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