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    OBIT: John Rawls, Theorist on Justice, Is Dead at 82 (DOUGLAS MARTIN, 11/26/02, NY Times)
    OBIT: Distinguished Philosopher, Professor Dies at 81 (ELLA A. HOFFMAN, November 26, 2002, Harvard Crimson)
    OBIT: Harvard Professor John Rawls Dies at 81 (JUSTIN POPE, 11/26/02, Associated Press)
    OBIT: Philosopher John Rawls Dies; Dissected Basis of Liberalism Washington Post, November 26, 2002)
    OBIT: John Rawls, towering figure of political philosophy; at 81 (Mark Feeney, 11/26/2002, Boston Globe)
    OBIT: John Rawls, 81; Philosopher Shaped Idea of Social Justice (Peter Hong, November 26 2002, LA Times)
    OBIT: John Rawls: Philosopher whose Theory of Justice argues for a social contract that does not disadvantage minorities (Times of London, November 27, 2002)
    OBIT: John Rawls (Daily Telegraph, 27/11/2002)
    OBIT: John Rawls: A leading political philosopher in the tradition of Locke, Rousseau and Kant, he put individual rights ahead of the common good (Ben Rogers, November 27, 2002, The Guardian)
    OBIT: The philosopher who transformed his subject (Brian Barry, November 27 2002, Financial Times)
    OBIT: John Rawls: Author of 'A Theory of Justice' (The Independent, 28 November 2002)
    Philosopher Rawls taught us to be thankful for luck By Matthew Miller, 11/30/02, Boston Globe)
    Rawls Remembered: An appreciation from the Right. (Richard A. Epstein, November 27, 2002, National Review)
    -PODCAST: Rawls' Theory of Justice: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, first published in 1971, a work that's been called the most influential book in 20th-century political philosophy. (BBC: In Our Times, 2/15/23)
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    -ESSAY: John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism (Joseph Heath, Aug 25, 2024, In Due Course)
    -ESSAY: Justice: John Rawls vs. Tradition of Political Philosophy (Allan Bloom)
    -ESSAY: Rawls on religion (Edward Feser, 7/11/24)
    -VIDEO: To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls can help (Aeon)
    -ESSAY: Justice: John Rawls vs. Tradition of Political Philosophy (Allan Bloom)

What Rawls creates is an enormously active government whose goal is to provide the primary goods, including the sense of one’s own worth, and therefore to encourage the attitudes that support the production and equal distribution of those goods. What can the future of liberty be in such a scheme? Liberty is, to be sure, Rawls’s first principle of justice, but it is qualified by having to be “compatible with a similar liberty for others.” Rawls does not elaborate the extent of that qualification. There is, to repeat, no natural-right teaching in Rawls, no absolute limit of any kind. All freely chosen life-plans must be restricted by the fundamental demands of social union. Conflict will be resolved practically and theoretically in favor of society. We have only Rawls’s assurance that nothing important can fail to find acceptance within the terms set by the original position. Man’s plasticity, made even greater by the absence of nature and its limits, permits all those little adjustments in men which will make the idea of social union possible. Society is the one absolute in Rawls’s thought, although it is without foundation.

    -ESSAY: Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical (John Rawls, Summer 1985, Philosophy and Public Affairs)

In this discussion I shall make some general remarks about how I now understand the conception of justice that I have called "justice as fairness" (presented in my book A Theory of Justice).] I do this because it may seem that this conception depends on philosophical claims I should like to avoid, for example, claims to universal truth, or claims about the essential nature and identity of persons. My aim is to explain why it does not. I shall first discuss what I regard as the task of political philosophy at the present time and then briefly survey how the basic intuitive ideas drawn upon in justice as fairness are combined into a political conception of justice for a constitutional democracy. Doing this would bring out how and why this conception of justice avoids certain philosophical and metaphysical claims. Briefly, the idea is that in a constitutional democracy the public conception of justice should be, so far as possible, independent of controversial philosophical and religious doctrines. Thus, to formulate such a conception, we apply the principle of toleration to philosophy itself: the public conception of justice is to be political, not metaphysical.

    -ESSAY: Political Liberalism and Rawlsian Religion: Ed Feser argues that John Rawls’ political liberalism is no more neutral and no less religiously particular than a comprehensively Catholic society. (Edward Feser. Aug 19, 2024, PostLiberal Order)
    -ESSAY: John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism (Joseph Heath, Aug 25, 2024, In Due Course)
    -ESSAY: Deflationary Liberalism: Social contract theory from the bottom-up (Samuel Hammond, Sep 27, 2024, second Best)
    The Best of All Games (John Rawls, March/April 2008, Boston Review)
   -ESSAY: Justice as Warfare (Nick Schulz, 12/06/02, Tech Central Station)
    -ESSAY: John Rawls' philosophy of justice (S. Phineas Upham, 10/29/2001, UPI)
    -ESSAY: JOHN RAWLS AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: Social reformers such as Rawls are in a tradition that emphasizes the best over the possible. (Clive Crook, 12/10/02, The Atlantic)
    -ESSAY: John Rawls and the Liberal Faith (Peter Berkowitz , Spring 2002, Wilson Quarterly)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Justice, Justice, Shalt Thou Pursue : The rigorous compassion of John Rawls. (THOMAS NAGEL, 10.25.99, New Republic) nbsp;   -ESSAY: The Enduring Significance of John Rawls (MARTHA NUSSBAUM, July 20, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Education)
    -REVIEW: of Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, by John Rawls, edited by Barbara Herman (Michael Zuckert, Claremont Review of Books)
    -Course Notes: RAWLSIAN LIBERALISM (PHIL 213 Political and Social Philosophy R.Johnson)
    -An OUTLINE: A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls
    -Portrait: John Rawls
    -ESSAY : Dangerous Egalitarian Dreams (John Kekes, Autumn 2001, City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls (Gilbert Meilander, First Things)
    -John Rawls: A Calvinist After-Image (Michael Weinstein, CTHEORY)
    -John Rawls's Political Liberalism By Ted Vaggalis, Drury College
    -Justice as Fairness
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    -ESSAY: Marx and Rawls: Opposites or Complements? (Matthew McManus·October 4, 2022, Liberal Currents)
    -ESSAY : BEHIND THE VEIL : JOHN RAWLS AND THE REVIVAL OF LIBERALISM  (Ben Rogers, July/August 1999, Lingua Franca)
    -REVIEW: A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: A New Philosophy of the Just Society (Stuart Hampshire, NY Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of  Political Liberalism by John Rawls, Liberalism: The New Twist (Stuart Hampshire, NY Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of  Collected Papers by John Rawls, edited by Samuel Freeman The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty (Jeremy Waldron, London Review of Books)
    -REVIEW : of Justice as Fairness : A Restatement by John Rawls (J. B. SCHNEEWIND, June 2001, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Justice As Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls (David Gordon, Mises Review)
    -REVIEW: of The Law of Peoples by John Rawls (David Gordon, Mises Review)
    -REVIEW : of Collected Papers by John Rawls (Thomas Nagel, New Republic)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: The God Trick: ‘In the Shadow of Justice’ (Susan McWilliams Barndt, May 11, 2020, Commonweal)
    -REVIEW: of In the Shadow of Justice (Olúfémi O. Táíwò, The Nation)
    -REVIEW: of Political Liberalism by John Rawls (Michael Sandel, Harvard Law Review)[PDF]
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    -REVIEW: of Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler (James Orr, The Critic)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Zig and Zag The surprising origins and politics of equality (Samuel Moyn, 8/30/24, The Nation)
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