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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
John Rawls
Born: February 21, 1921
Died: November 24, 2002 (aged 81)
Bio: John Bordley Rawls was an American moral and political philosopher. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford.
Known for:
- A Theory of Justice (1971)
- Political Liberalism (1993)
- The Law of Peoples (1993)
- Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001)
- Lectures on the history of moral philosophy (2000)
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