the current study investigates the concept of educational justice as well as principles for the distribution of educational good from the view points of john rawls as the representative of liberalism and michacl walzer as the representative of communitarianism. to this end, the current study has applied methods of conceptual analysis as well as comparative analysis. the obtained results show th...

In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls adds an eighth law to his previous account: peoples have a duty to assist other peoples living under unfavorable conditions that prevent their having a just or decent political and social regime.” This addition is meant to show that Rawls’ proposal can give a plausible account of global economic justice, albeit a less egalitarian one than his cosmopoli...

Rawls is one of the most important philosophers in American and Western thought 20th century. His main theoretical contributions are reappropriation social contract natural law doctrines political philosophy, a comprehensive exposition his basic theory "justice as fairness," profound criticism utilitarianism. The two principles justice that he repeatedly discusses highlight equality citizens sh...

Repetitive episodes of brief regional ischemia have been shown to reduce the severity of life-threatening ventricular anhythrnias and infarct size that occur during prolonged occlusion of the coronary artery. This phenomenon is known as ischemic preconditioning. During studies in anesthetized, open chest Wistar rats, we accidentally observed that poorly ventilated animals had a reduced seve...

This essay challenges the view that John Rawls’s recently published undergraduate thesis A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith provides little help in understanding his mature work. Two crucial strands of Rawls’s Theory of Justice are its critique of teleology and its claims about our moral nature and its expression. These strands are brought together in a set of arguments late in T...

What is a just society? How to distribute limited resources, opportunities, access, guarantees, and so forth, to members of a community who are of vastly different natural and acquired capacities? Perhaps the most promising approach to an answer is that suggested by John Rawls. Rawls’ famous thoughtexperiment, in A Theory of Justice – the invitation to take up the perspective of “the original p...

In 1980, the liberal political philosopher John Rawls delivered a remarkable series of lectures at Columbia University. The Dewey Lectures, subsequently published in the Journal of Philosophy as “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory,” detailed a metaethical procedure–or method for formulating principles–that informed his earlier A Theory of Justice (1971) and that would make possible its sequ...