John Rawls

John Rawls

DECEASED: formerly James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Professor Rawls is arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. In many ways, he was single-handedly responsible for the re-birth of the subject in the 1970s: It had been dormant for decades, in large part because of the influence of logical positivism, but it exploded after the publication of his classic book A Theory of Justice. Professor Rawls published a sequel, Political Liberalism, which alters the views of the earlier book in many respects.


Tributes:
Center for Ethics
Harvard Gazette