Understanding Society

Technologies and technology systems have deep and pervasive effects on the human beings who live within their reach. How do normative pr...

There isn't a clear philosophy of life-planning in the literature. So let's start from scratch. What do we need in order to make a ...

Aristotle, Kant, and Rawls agree: people ought to have rational plans of life to guide their everyday efforts and activities. But what is...

source: Benoit Mandelbrot,  The Fractal Geometry of Nature  (cover) source: Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature , p. 15 An...

In an earlier post I spent some time trying to determine what the major sources were of Rawls's knowledge of the history of classical p...

John Rawls's critique of capitalism was deeper than has been commonly recognized -- this is a central thrust of quite a bit of import...

image: Karl Marx by David Levine It is interesting to consider whether the principles of justice that Rawls describes in A Theory of Justic...

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is highly relevant to the ways we think about our economic system.  If we just read the citations, Ra...

Rawls's A Theory of Justice was immediately received as a major and progressive contribution to the theory of justice within existing s...

During the final preparation of The Law of Peoples: with "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" John Rawls had extensive interacti...

John Rawls's (1971)  A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (TJ) had a sizable impact on a number of disciplines, including economics a...