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    Rawls turned to the question of how political power could be made legitimate given reasonable disagreement about the nature of the good life. Rawls received...
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    Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief period in...
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  • Rawls is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonzo Rawls, American skateboarder Andre Rawls (born 1991), American sportsman Anne Warfield...
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  • John Rawlings may refer to: John Rawlings (photographer), American fashion photographer John Joseph Rawlings, British engineer and inventor of the wall...
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  • performer John F. Rawls, American developmental biologist since the 1990s John S. Rawls (1921–1993), American politician in Florida Johnny Rawls (born 1951)...
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  • John Rawls (born 4 May 1972) is an actor from New Zealand. Rawls was born in England and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand after moving there at age six...
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  • propositions about justice, as Rawls had done, because he accepted well-established utilitarian propositions, which Rawls found unacceptable. In 1974, three...
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    thought experiment often associated with the works of American philosopher John Rawls. In the original position, one is asked to consider which principles they...
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  • was made central to the philosophy of the social contract, primarily by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice (1971). In 1993, the Vienna Declaration and Programme...
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  • rejections of the concept of desert was made by the political philosopher John Rawls. Rawls, writing in the mid to late twentieth century, claimed that a person...
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    is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative...
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    of John Rawls, The Man Who Made Moral Philosophy Respectable Again – And Whose Views Also Profoundly Informed American Legal Thought". FindLaw. Rawls remained...
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  • State of nature (category John Locke)
    to the state of nature. John Rawls used what amounted to an artificial state of nature. To develop his theory of justice, Rawls places everyone in the...
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  • Los Angeles. Rawls was hired by the Chosen Gospel Singers and moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1955, Rawls enlisted in the...
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  • named Fairness, Rawls is menaced by villainous libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and his lover Ayn Rand, who plot to stop Rawls writing his redistributionist...
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    drawing on a point re-iterated by philosophers such as John Rawls. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls asserts that a society must tolerate the intolerant in...
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    theory of political philosopher John Rawls, developed in his work A Theory of Justice, was influenced by Kant's ethics. Rawls argued that a just society would...
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    her cleaning campaign and other environmental activism. Her father, John Rawlings, endorsed her candidature and mounted platforms to campaign for her...
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  • community. John Rawls defines the common good as "certain general conditions that are ... equally to everyone's advantage". In his Theory of Justice, Rawls argues...
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  • Microbiology. Rawls is the director of the Duke Microbiome Center. "MGM John Rawls, PhD – Biography". mgm.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26. Rawls, John Franklin...
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    Social contract (category John Rawls)
    the work of Immanuel Kant with its presumption of limits on the state, John Rawls (1921–2002), in A Theory of Justice (1971), proposed a contractarian approach...
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    John Dramani Mahama (/məˈhɑːmə/ ; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician, and the president-elect of Ghana, having won the 2024 Ghanaian general...
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  • ideal theory and non-ideal theory was first proposed by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice. Rawls' reasoning behind using ideal theory is that it provides...
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    critique of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls's argument depends on the assumption of the veil of ignorance, which Sandel argues commits Rawls to a view...
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    published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya...
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  • Justice as Fairness (category John Rawls)
    freedoms. Rawls argued that "certain rights and freedoms are more important or fundamental "than others." For example, Samuel Freeman argues, Rawls believes...
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    major political philosophers of the late twentieth century. For example, John Rawls drew heavily on his inspiration in setting out the basis for a liberal...
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  • Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (category Works by John Rawls)
    Restatement is a 2001 book of political philosophy by the philosopher John Rawls, published as a restatement of his 1971 classic A Theory of Justice (1971)...
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  • John Rawlings Rees, CBE, FRCP (25 June 1890 – 11 April 1969), also known as 'Jack' or 'J.R.', was a British civilian and military psychiatrist. Born in...
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  • Utilitarianism (category John Stuart Mill)
    John C. (June 1975). "Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls's Theory A Theory of Justice by John Rawls"....
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