In January 2004, Rawls was honored by the United Negro College Fund for his more than 25 years of charity work with the organization.

In 2000, following a $ 25 million gift from alumnus Jerry S. Rawls, the school was formally renamed the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

The school offers Juris Doctor degrees which can be earned in conjunction with Master of Business Administration or Master of Science degrees through the adjacent Rawls College of Business.

* Rawls College of Business, a business school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

In 1983, he was awarded a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship to study Philosophy at Harvard University under John Rawls, returning to research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for three years from 1984.

In 1980, Rawls began the " Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon " which benefits the United Negro College Fund.

In January 2004, Rawls was honored by the United Negro College Fund for his more than 25 years of charity work with the organization.

On January 7, 1995 BlackGirl took part in ' The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars ' to benefit the United Negro College Fund.

Statue of Jerry S. Rawls at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business

The Rawls College of Business and The Rawls Course at Texas Tech University are named for him.

Mr. Rawls has been a member of IEEE since 1980, is on Tech ’ s Rawls College of Business Dean ’ s Advisory Council, and Purdue ’ s Krannert School Deans Advisory Council.

* Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University

* New Rawls College of Business Building

** The Contractarianism of John Rawls, which holds that the moral acts are those that we would all agree to if we were unbiased.

Rawls used a thought experiment, the original position, in which representative parties choose principles of justice for the basic structure of society from behind a veil of ignorance.

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

* John Rawls: Revitalized the study of normative political philosophy in Anglo-American universities with his 1971 book A Theory of Justice, which uses a version of social contract theory to answer fundamental questions about justice and to criticise utilitarianism.

It is worth noting that for many contemporary political philosophers, the rigidity of a particular set of norms, rules, or fixed boundaries about either the way that subjects who would qualify for deliberation are constituted ( a position perhaps epitomized by John Rawls ) or regarding the kinds of argument which qualify as deliberation ( a position perhaps epitomized by Jürgen Habermas ) constitute a foreclosure of deliberation, making it impossible.

Rawls specifies that the parties in the original position are concerned only with citizens ' share of what he calls primary social goods, which include basic rights as well as economic and social advantages.

Objections to Rawls ' theory include first, its inability to accommodate conscientious objections to the society's basic appreciation of justice or to emerging moral or ethical principles ( such as respect for the rights of the natural environment ) which are not yet part of it and second, the difficulty of predictably and consistently determining that a majority decision is just or unjust.

Rawls argues that human beings have a " sense of justice " which is both a source of moral judgment and moral motivation.

Rawls applied this technique to his conception of a hypothetical original position from which people would agree to a social contract.

The station's longtime slogan, " Chicago's Very Own " ( which has been used since 1983 ), was the basis for a popular image campaign of the 1980s and 1990s, as performed by Lou Rawls.

The resultant theory is known as " Justice as Fairness ", from which Rawls derives his two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle.

Rawls offers a model of a fair choice situation ( the original position with its veil of ignorance ) within which parties would hypothetically choose mutually acceptable principles of justice.

Specifically, Rawls develops what he claims are principles of justice through the use of an artificial device he calls the Original position in which everyone decides principles of justice from behind a veil of ignorance.

In particular, Rawls claims that those in the Original Position would all adopt a maximin strategy which would maximise the prospects of the least well-off.

Rawls claims that the parties in the original position would adopt two such principles, which would then govern the assignment of rights and duties and regulate the distribution of social and economic advantages across society.

Rawls ' claim in ( a ) is that departures from equality of a list of what he calls primary goods —" things which a rational man wants whatever else he wants " 1971, pg.

Rawls is also keying on an intuition that a person does not morally deserve their inborn talents ; thus that one is not entitled to all the benefits they could possibly receive from them ; hence, at least one of the criteria which could provide an alternative to equality in assessing the justice of distributions is eliminated.

Although Rawls never retreated from the core argument of A Theory of Justice, he modified his theory substantially in subsequent works such as Justice as Fairness: A Restatement ( 2001 ), in which he clarified and re-organised much of the argument of A Theory of Justice.

Robert Paul Wolff wrote Understanding Rawls: A Critique and Reconstruction of A Theory of Justice, which criticized Rawls from a Marxist perspective, immediately following the publication of A Theory of Justice.

Philosopher Allan Bloom, a student of Leo Strauss, criticized Rawls for failing to account for the existence of natural right in his theory of justice, and wrote that Rawls absolutizes social union as the ultimate goal which would conventionalize everything into artifice.

Rawls justifies the Difference Principle on the basis that, since Fair Equality of Opportunity has lexical priority, the Just choice from Pareto optimal scenarios which could occur would be that benefiting the worst-off rather than the best-off.

According to most contemporary theories of justice, justice is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that " Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

In his A Theory of Justice, John Rawls used a social contract argument to show that justice, and especially distributive justice, is a form of fairness: an impartial distribution of goods.

Rawls asks us to imagine ourselves behind a veil of ignorance that denies us all knowledge of our personalities, social statuses, moral characters, wealth, talents and life plans, and then asks what theory of justice we would choose to govern our society when the veil is lifted, if we wanted to do the best that we could for ourselves.

Rawls argues that each of us would reject the utilitarian theory of justice that we should maximize welfare ( see below ) because of the risk that we might turn out to be someone whose own good is sacrificed for greater benefits for others.

Robert Nozick's influential critique of Rawls argues that distributive justice is not a matter of the whole distribution matching an ideal pattern, but of each individual entitlement having the right kind of history.

To emphasise the general principle that justice should rise from the people and not be dictated by the law-making powers of governments, Rawls asserted that, " There is ... a general presumption against imposing legal and other restrictions on conduct without sufficient reason.

" This is support for an unranked set of liberties that reasonable citizens in all states should respect and uphold — to some extent, the list proposed by Rawls matches the normative human rights that have international recognition and direct enforcement in some nation states where the citizens need encouragement to act in a way that fixes a greater degree of equality of outcome.

is: John Rawls

A prominent contemporary theorist of distributive justice is the philosopher John Rawls.

* Tahlequah is featured in the book, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

The original position is a hypothetical situation developed by American philosopher John Rawls as a thought experiment to replace the imagery of a savage state of nature of prior political philosophers like Thomas Hobbes.

However, in other writings, Rawls seems to argue that his theory bypasses traditional metaethical questions, including questions of moral epistemology, and is intended instead to serve a practical function.

A Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls.

Rawls argues that inequality is acceptable only if it is to the advantage of those who are worst-off.

An important consequence here, however, is that inequalities can actually be just on Rawls ' view, as long as they are to the benefit of the least well off.