JOHN RAWLS’S

THEORY OF JUSTICE
John Rawls
February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002)

• He was an American moral

and political philosopher in the liberal
tradition.

• Rawls was born on Febuary 21, 1921

in Baltimore , Maryland, the second of five sons
of William Lee Rawls, "one of the most
prominent attorneys in Baltimore",and Anna
Abell Stump Rawls.

• Rawls has often been described as the most

important political philosopher of the 20th
century.
• Rawls responded, to the injustices of the modern world
from a very young age.

• In 1971, A Theory of Justice was published.

• Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy
and the National Humanities Medal in 1999.
• In 1939, Rawls graduated Summa cum laude in Princeton
University and was accepted into The Ivy Club and the American
Whig-Cliosophic Society.
• During his last two years in Princeton University he became
deeply concerned with theology and its doctrines.