John Rawls and "Justice as Impartiality: Politics, not Metaphysics"

Abstract

John Rawls (1921-2002) was an American philosopher, a unique thinker on social, political and legal matters, whose work “A Theory of Justice” (1971) had enormous scope and impact in various academic circles, becoming a book mandatory reference that generated incessant debates in different fields of the human sciences. Motivated by this and by the initial criticisms, Rawls deepened many of his central arguments to clarify them and respond to continuous reviews; The result of this process was the essay “Justice as Impartiality: Politics, not Metaphysics” published in 1985.