He was the son of William L. Rawls and Anna Stump Rawls.
In 1948, he married Margaret Warfield Fox.
They were the parents of four children.
American philosopher. He helped return the study of philosophy to questions of right and wrong. He was known for his book, A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. His principle was known as the Rawls Test: Would the best-off people accept the arrangements if they believed that they might at any moment find themselves in the place of the worst off? He was also the author of Political Liberalism published in 1993. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Princeton University. During World War II he served as an infantryman in the Pacific Theatre. He taught at Princeton, Cornell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining Harvard in 1962. In 1999 he received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities which was presented by President Bill Clinton.∼
In 1948, he married Margaret Warfield Fox.
They were the parents of four children.
American philosopher. He helped return the study of philosophy to questions of right and wrong. He was known for his book, A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. His principle was known as the Rawls Test: Would the best-off people accept the arrangements if they believed that they might at any moment find themselves in the place of the worst off? He was also the author of Political Liberalism published in 1993. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Princeton University. During World War II he served as an infantryman in the Pacific Theatre. He taught at Princeton, Cornell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining Harvard in 1962. In 1999 he received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities which was presented by President Bill Clinton.∼
He was the son of William L. Rawls and Anna Stump Rawls.
In 1948, he married Margaret Warfield Fox.
They were the parents of four children.
American philosopher. He helped return the study of philosophy to questions of right and wrong. He was known for his book, A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. His principle was known as the Rawls Test: Would the best-off people accept the arrangements if they believed that they might at any moment find themselves in the place of the worst off? He was also the author of Political Liberalism published in 1993. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Princeton University. During World War II he served as an infantryman in the Pacific Theatre. He taught at Princeton, Cornell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining Harvard in 1962. In 1999 he received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities which was presented by President Bill Clinton.∼
In 1948, he married Margaret Warfield Fox.
They were the parents of four children.
American philosopher. He helped return the study of philosophy to questions of right and wrong. He was known for his book, A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. His principle was known as the Rawls Test: Would the best-off people accept the arrangements if they believed that they might at any moment find themselves in the place of the worst off? He was also the author of Political Liberalism published in 1993. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Princeton University. During World War II he served as an infantryman in the Pacific Theatre. He taught at Princeton, Cornell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining Harvard in 1962. In 1999 he received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities which was presented by President Bill Clinton.∼
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