Rawls
OriginUSA
Era1921
SchoolPolitical
About Rawls
A Theory of Justice is the most important work of political philosophy since Mill. The veil of thought experiment asks what society you would design without knowing your place in it. The difference principle: inequalities are only justified if they benefit the worst-off. Served in the Pacific during WWII, which shaped his thinking about justice.
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