Hegel, John Stuart Mill,
John Rawls, and Michael Walzer.
John Rawls' 'justice as fairness' and the demandingness problem
In 1971 the philosopher
John Rawls proposed a thought experiment to understand the idea of fairness: the 'veil of ignorance.' What if, he asked, we could erase our recollections so we had no memory of who we were-our race, our income level, anything that may influence our opinion?
He critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, including Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt,
John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Richard Rorty.
A Response to
John Rawls's Critique of Loyola on the Human Good, CHRISTOPHER JAMES WOLFE and JONATHAN POLCE, S.J.
Indeed,
John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice' almost single-handedly caused the rebirth of a philosophy that was at its dead end.
Synopsis: "Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as
John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it - and as most people think of it today.
The philosopher
John Rawls proposed, in his book A Theory of Justice, that a just society could allow differences in wealth only to the degree that they benefit the least well-off.