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John Rawls . By Othello Jimenez. John Rawls 1921-2002. Places he has been. Rawls was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland. He studied at Princeton. His first appointment was at mit, and he became a faculty member at Harvard university. . influences.
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John Rawls By Othello Jimenez
Places he has been • Rawls was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland. He studied at Princeton. His first appointment was at mit, and he became a faculty member at Harvard university.
influences • Originally he was influenced by Wittgenstein's student Norman Malcolm, and it gave him an interesting outlook on life but after he returned from world war ll he had a more pacifist outlook, so he protested the war in Afghanistan and tried to get others to do so as well.
Contributing to philosophical knowledge After Rawls was in world war 2 and saw all the inhumane killing in the holocaust he protested the Afghanistan war, he came up with the philosophy justice as fairness which is made up of 2 principals First Principle: Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all; Second Principle: Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: They are to be attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; They are to be to the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society (the difference principle). (JF, 42–43)
sites • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/#TwoGuiIdeJusFai • www.iep.utm.edu/rawls • www.ohio.edu/people/piccard/entropy/rawls.html