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John Rawls was born in 1921 and he died in 2002 having lived a full life where he was considered by some to be one of the most important philosophers of his time. Born in Baltimore, he went to school in Maryland before transferring to Kent School, a well respected prep school in Connecticut. When Rawls graduated in 1939, he went on to Princeton where he discovered a profound understanding of philosophy.

After graduating from Princeton, Rawls joined the Army. Having viewed the devastation the bombing of Hiroshima stirred, Rawls left the Army instead of accepting an official position as an officer. Instead, he pursued his doctorate degree at Princeton and married Margaret Fox in 1949. Margaret, a Brown graduate, helped John write the index on a book about Nietzsche during their first months together.

John Rawls graduated from Princeton with his Ph.D in 1950 and taught at Princeton until 1952. He left Princeton when he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Oxford University. It was there that he began to find Isaiah Berlin’s ideas thought provoking and he began to study many of the philosopher’s theories. He also became heavily interested in the work of Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart. Both men and their philosophical views influenced Rawls and his later work in philosophy.

John Rawls returned to the states and began teaching at Cornell before later moving to Harvard. Rawls published Theory of Justice in 1971. He was also the author of other papers and intellectual works of thought-provoking creativity. Rawls taught at Harvard for approximately forty years. He had a stroke in 1995 but he went on to write The Law of Peoples which contains his passionate views on various topics including international justice. John Rawls died in 2002. He was eighty-one.


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