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Rawls  (rôlz), John 1921-2002.
American political philosopher whose A Theory of Justice (1971) revived the social contractarian tradition by arguing that all members of society would support the same principles of justice under conditions that guarantee impartiality.
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He attacks both leftist arguments critical of globalization and conservative arguments concerning the role of capitalism in promoting nihilist libertinism; defends the United States as the bourgeois ideal of democratic capitalism; and addresses the political writings of such figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, John Rawls, John Kekes, Bertrand de Jouvenal, Marcel Gauchet, and Pierre Manet.
Democratic capitalism and its discontents by Reference & Research Book News
Rawls, John (2001) The law of peoples: with "The idea of public reason revisited".
Prophesying global justice: thinkers of the French revolution on ... by Arnarson, Egill / Trames
Galston, Two Concepts of Liberalism, 105 ETHICS 516, 527 (1995) (describing how liberalisms of Rawls, John Stuart Mill, and Isaiah Berlin cherish diversity).
Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in ... by Gordon, Robert M. / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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