He returns also to an old charge against the late John Rawls.

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Thinkers such as John Rawls defended liberal principles with more argument.

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In a somewhat cryptic footnote in A Theory of Justice, John Rawls suggested we may possess an analogous moral capacity that accounts for our competence in deploying moral rules.

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Some noble souls will always be willing to put up with low salaries in exchange for a chance to pursue the truth: it is hard to imagine John Rawls hustling for a bit of extra cash.

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In a short and sweet post at Psychology Today, Scott James, author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics (and a friend of mine from grad school) offers a summary of the contemporary moral nativist view inspired by Noam Chomsky and John Rawls.

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Mr Shiller has, for example, a hearty dislike of inequality, and his views are much influenced by John Rawls, an American philosopher, who argued that a just society is one in which increases in inequality are justified only if they benefit the poorest in society.

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