John Rawls (February 21, 1921 - November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of "A Theory of Justice" (1971), "Political Liberalism", "Justice as Fairness: A Restatement", and "The Law of Peoples". He is widely considered one of the most important English-language political philosophers of the 20th century, … Wikipedia
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The idea of the original position is perhaps the most lasting contribution of John Rawls to our theorizing about social justice. plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
INAUGURAL ABRAHAM MELDEN LECTURES John Rawls Harvard University THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON Two lectures I. Tuesday, February 27, 1990 II. sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/philosophy/rawls.html