Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Photograph taken by Alec Rawls, John's son. The portrait was uncredited on the original dust jacket, but Alec is identified as its photographer on the copyright page of the 1994 German-language first edition of the book John Rawls by Thomas Pogge. · Public domain（via Wikimedia Commons）
John Rawls
John Rawls (English: John Rawls, February 21, 1921 - November 24, 2002) was an American political philosopher and ethicist who believed in liberalism. He graduated with a doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University and served as a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of "A Theory of Justice" (1971), "Political Liberalism", "Justice as Fairness: A New Theory of Justice", "The Law of Peoples" and other famous works. Rawls was one of the leading representatives of political philosophy in the 1970s, and many of his students have now become important figures in moral and political philosophy, such as Thomas Nagel and Joshua Cohen.
- Category
- Political figures
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1921-02-21
- Died
- 2002-11-24
- Wikidata
- Q172544
