Blogs about: John Rawls

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Searching for Justice in Injustice

danitocchetto wrote 3 days ago: We live in a world of unambiguous and alarming injustices. The World Bank estimated that in 2005 abo … more →

Tags: Viewpoint, Adam Smith, Amartya Sen, Avner De-Shalit, Disadvantage, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Wolff

Column: Kiko, Chiz, Amina, Candy -- and consensus2 comments

johnnery wrote 1 month ago: Published on May 19, 2009 Fortune favors, not only the bold, but the foresighted. The decision of Se … more →

Tags: Newsstand: Column, 2010 Elections, chiz escudero, kiko pangilinan, Manny Villar, noli de castro, overlapping consensus, Philippine elections, Philippine Politics

From The Hoover Institution Via A & L Daily: God And John Rawls

chr1 wrote 1 month ago: Full post here. The argument is that early Rawls’s conception of the soul is quite a religious … more →

Tags: Public Debate, Philosophy, Politics, Current Events, Religion, Political Philosophy, Hoover, Policy Review

Penance

Aristotle The Geek wrote 1 month ago: Found a link to this perverse piece by a civil servant on “fair taxation” via a comment … more →

Tags: Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Taxation, egalitarianism, Equality of outcome, Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell, Rawls

John Rawls on Value and Justification18 comments

Liza wrote 1 month ago: After reading the comments on a previous post, it has become apparent to me that some people who tak … more →

Tags: Debate, Morality, Contractualism, epistemic virtue, fact/value distinction, Moral anti-realism, moral nihilism, Moral Realism, Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics

What happens when social contracts break?1 comment

jonathantodd wrote 2 months ago: MPs have abused their expenses, seeming to treat them as perks or part of their remuneration. In doi … more →

Tags: British politics, Culture, gordon brown, Tony Blair, iraq, BNP, John McFall, Harriet Harman, Fred Goodwin

Review of Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition

Troy Polidori wrote 2 months ago: Democracy and Tradition. By Jeffrey Stout. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 368 Pages. … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Theology, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jeffrey Stout, John Milbank, Liberalism, Ordinary Language Philosophy, Pragmatism

Philosophy Word of the Day – John Rawls (1921-2002 )

fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Cover via Amazon American political philosopher. As presented in A Theory of Justice (1971) { … more →

Tags: philosophy word of the day, Philosophy, Theory of Justice, political liberalism, Political Philosophy, Liberalism

Impartiality.1 comment

Tomas Halberstad wrote 2 months ago: Today I’ve been reading. My companion has been the excellent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosop … more →

Tags: reality, studies, David Gauthier, bachelors thesis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, impartiality, Dog Walking, laudry

A discussion on morality and the nature of values

Abhishek wrote 2 months ago: To make up for my lack of posting, let me link to a discussion over at Aristotle’s blog. It st … more →

Tags: uncategorized musings, Axioms, Ayn Rand, ethics, Morality, Objectivism, Philosophy, Rationality, Values

Those Less Fortunate

Matthew Weston wrote 2 months ago: One of the essays I have recently been asked to write for my politics degree was titled “Shoul … more →

Tags: Problems, Business as Usual, Politics, police, spin, Liberty, survival, Robert Nozick, Taxation

Moral Grounding

dangeroustalk wrote 3 months ago: Almost every time I get into a prolonged conversation with a fundamentalist Christian the issue of m … more →

Tags: freethought, Religion, Atheism, God, Aristotle, Chrisitanity, ethics, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham

Rawls' Views on Religion

Christopher Cloos wrote 3 months ago: An interesting article on Ralws’ views on  religion is found here. The article is written by J … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Religion

America's Game

armsakimbo wrote 3 months ago: Monday marks the true end of winter.  It’s an annual event celebrated by millions of people ac … more →

Tags: Sports, Pittsburgh, pirates, Baseball, MLB, Opening Day!

John Rawls is Twisting in His Grave4 comments

matthewladner wrote 3 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Philosopher John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice argued that societal eth … more →

Tags: Vouchers, Arizona Supreme Court, Arizona voucher ruling, Know-Nothings, Ku Klux Klan

From Andrew Sullivan: A Brief Discussion Of John Rawls

chr1 wrote 3 months ago: Full post here. From one of Sullivan’s readers on Rawls:   “Rawls political philosophy s … more →

Tags: Current Events, Philosophy, Politics, andrew sullivan, political liberalism

THROUGH THE LENS OF DEVELOPMENT - An Evaluative Analysis on HB 50431 comment

Leofina Jane wrote 3 months ago: [Note: This article was included in Social Development Studies Bricolage –an initiative of SDS-271, … more →

Tags: development, development ethics, Diversity, Essay, guide to life, Life, Non-Fiction, Opinion and commentaries, People and Humanity

The Rule Of Publishing Your Undergraduate Senior Thesis.

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 3 months ago: Don’t do it until you are famous philosopher and also dead. Hide it well and then let it be di … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Religion, undergraduate thesis

Moral Philosophy as Rationalization

Mike Gibson wrote 4 months ago: Tyler Cowen links to a very insightful article on the theology of the young John Rawls.  It seems Ra … more →

Tags: Theology, veil of ignorance


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