Rawls on Justice

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Apr 6, 202148:00News & Politics

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) changed the face of modern political philosophy by reinventing the question of what constitutes fairness. From ‘the veil of ignorance’ to ‘reflective equilibrium’ it introduced new...

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