John Rawls was James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. He was recipient of the 1999 National Humanities Medal.
John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary
analytic philosophy to provide the social contract tradition with
what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, the most
formidable defense it has yet received…[and] makes available the
powerful intellectual resources and the comprehensive approach that
have so far eluded antiutilitarians.
*New York Times Book Review*
The most substantial and interesting contribution to moral
philosophy since the war.
*New York Review of Books*
I mean...to press my recommendation of [this book] to
non-philosophers, especially those holding positions of
responsibility in law and government. For the topic with which it
deals is central to this country's purposes, and the
misunderstanding of that topic is central to its difficulties.
*New Republic*
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