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	Lou Rawls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rawls was a high school classmate of music giant Sam Cooke, and they sang together in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a 50s gospel group.
		Rawls was actually pronounced dead before arriving at the hospital, where he stayed in a coma for five and a half days.
		In December 2005, it was announced that Rawls was being treated for lung and brain cancer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lou_Rawls (1175 words)

	John Rawls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples.
		Rawls has the unique distinction among contemporary political philosophers of being frequently cited by the courts of law in the United States and referred to by practicing politicians in the United Kingdom.
		Rawls, to the amazement of many, refuted this application and claimed that nations were self-sufficient, unlike the cooperative enterprises that domestic societies are.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Rawls (2522 words)

	Prospect - Selected Features - Portrait: John Rawls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rawls believes, contentiously, that if we were participants in the original position, we would pursue a low-risk strategy and agree to principles which are basically egalitarian--principles which guarantee the highest possible minimum levels of freedom, wealth and opportunity, even at the cost of lowering average levels.
		Rawls suggests that we would elect to be governed by two principles (his famous "two principles of justice"), the first concerning liberty, the second the distribution of wealth and power.
		Rawls came to believe that while his society was meant to permit a great diversity of value systems, the argument he advanced for it would only ever appeal to those who accepted one set of values--those of secular liberalism.
	members.aol.com /menick/rawls.html (4911 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: John Rawls
		Rawls contended that with the banishment of this sort of bias-inducing knowledge, the participants in the original position are forced, even if self-centred, into the moral point of view - or, as he called it in the last rousing chapters of A Theory Of Justice, "the perspective of eternity".
		Rawls, moreover, always insisted that the abstract principles in which political philosophers dealt had to be tested against pre-theoretical convictions of "common sense" - he suggested that political philosophers had to learn to adjust first principles and moral intuitions until they cohered in what he termed, in another famous phrase, "reflective equilibrium".
		Rawls was born, the second of five brothers, to an old and wealthy Baltimore family, and acquired, early on, almost Puritan good manners and moral earnestness.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,848488,00.html (2370 words)

	Rawls, John [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Rawls explains in the Preface to the first edition of TJ that one of the book’s main aims is to provide a “workable and systematic moral conception to oppose” utilitarianism.
		About their society, Rawls has the parties simply assume that it is characterized by the “circumstances of justice,” which principally include (a) the fact that material goods are scarce, but moderately so and (b) that there is, within society, a plurality of worldviews—“conceptions of the good” —moral, religious, and secular.
		Rawls has the parties to the OP assume that the society for which they are choosing principles is in the “circumstances of justice,” which include the presence of a plurality of irreconcilable moral, religious, and philosophical doctrines.
	www.iep.utm.edu /r/rawls.htm (10100 words)

	The politics of John Rawls.
		Rawls later work claims that his concerns are not metaphysical, but political: a stable and workable society in the western liberal tradition.
		Rawls suggests that acceptance of the liberal conception of justice might evolve, from acquiescence in a 'modus vivendi', to a genuine overlapping consensus.
		Rawls wants all comprehensive doctrines to fit the overlapping consensus, or disappear: but the point of comprehensive innovation is to replace existing consensus, and all it supports.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/rawls.html (13506 words)

	RAWLS: THE ORIGINAL POSITION
		Rawls doesn't suppose that the members of this group are in any degree concerned for the happiness of mankind, or for one another's happiness.
		In later expositions of the theory Rawls avoids saying that these people are selfish, he says that they have their own purposes (selfish or not), and that each is trying to do the best for his or her purposes without being concerned for the purposes of others.
		Rawls says that these are 'the circumstances of justice', the circumstances to which rules of justice are relevant.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y64l13.html (3851 words)

	The Chronicle: 7/20/2001: The Enduring Significance of John Rawls
		Rawls had been working on the book for more than 20 years and had published a group of influential articles that had already made his main ideas familiar to philosophers, but the publication of the book had a dramatic impact.
		Rawls acknowledges that self-respect is a primary good, but his difference principle measures the least well off with regard to income and wealth alone.
		Rawls recognizes that kind of problem, but suggests that it be left for a later stage of political choice, after basic principles are chosen.
	chronicle.com /free/v47/i45/45b00701.htm (3029 words)

	Original Position
		As Rawls pointed out, the idea of an initial situation of choice for ethico-political principles is common to other approaches, and represents a hypotheticalization of familiar reasoning within the social contract tradition.
		Rawls explicitly identified two sorts of considerations that are relevant to such analysis and implies a third.
		Secondly, Rawls noted that, in order to determine what sort of principles might be fit to play a certain role, we must understand what (formal) constraints on such principles are reasonable to impose, at least tentatively, as an expression of the function which we expect such principles to discharge.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/original-position (3631 words)

	John Rawls -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Rawls’ political philosophy is a continuation of the idea of the Social Contract.
		Harvard University professor John Rawls destroyed the notion that political philosophy was dead and revived the discussion among intellectuals about the nature of justice.
		Rawls was opposed to the utilitarian position of justice, believing that it was not just the outcome of pure utility, and was also opposed a purely intuitive view of ethics, which states that people have some source of knowledge or intuition that explains moral judgments and the right way of life.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/john_rawls.htm (1111 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Soul singer Rawls dies of cancer
		Rawls was admitted to hospital last month, but was still well enough to give an interview to the Arizona Republic newspaper.
		Rawls was playing R&B clubs in Los Angeles when his four-octave range caught the ear of a Capitol Records producer, who signed him to the label in 1962.
		Rawls was diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2004 and brain cancer in May 2005.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4588756.stm (402 words)

	Amazon.com: Political Liberalism: Books: John Rawls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Now, Rawls has revised his previous conception of society: it is not necessary that a society is relatively homogeneous in the moral beliefs of its elements; it is sufficient that the political institutions are suitable to accomodate every line of thought that is not against the "overlapping consensus" of society.
		Rawls argues that ever since Catholicism and Protestantism fought each other to a standstill in Renaissance Europe, and the separation of Church and State was accepted as unavoidable, "reasonable pluralism" has become a fact of life for modern societies, and a fact which should be welcomed.
		Rawls regards the relations of production as a secondary question which can be sorted out in due course, once the institutions of representative democracy and the judiciary have been settled and the citizens can legislate the social system.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231052499?v=glance (1872 words)

	John Rawls, "Punishment" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		About the Author: John Rawls, who is now Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University, is one of the major moral and political philosophers of the twentieth century.
		Rawls distinguishes between justifying a practice and justifying particular actions falling under it.
		Rawls considers the claim that utilitarianism "justifies too much" in regard to punishment.
	ethics.acusd.edu /Applied/DeathPenalty/Rawls.html (3633 words)

	A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
		Rawls explicitly addresses the fact that there will be situations where these two primary principles will be in conflict with each other.
		Rawls adopts the concept of efficiency that is associated with the name Pareto in the field of economics.
		Rawls claims that rational people will unanimously adopt his principles of justice if their reasoning is based on general considerations, without knowing anything about their own personal situation.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~piccard/entropy/rawls.html (1342 words)

	Rawls on Justice
		But Rawls has gone beyond his views of 1971, and philosophy courses are beginning to take his important later thinking into account.
		Rawls' approach is not Utilitarian and it does not rely heavily on arguments from tradition.
		Because of the fairness of the procedure Rawls has described, he says, the principles that would be chosen by means of this procedure would be fair principles.
	www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/ethics/johnrawl.htm (1299 words)

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		Upon graduation in 1939, Rawls went on to Princeton University where he became interested in philosophy.
		After earning his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1950, Rawls decided to teach there until 1952 when he received a Fulbright Fellowship to Oxford University (Christ Church), where he was influenced by the liberal political theorist and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin.
		However, he moved to Harvard University two years later, where he remained for almost forty years.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_rawls.html (1389 words)

	Amazon.com: A Theory of Justice: Books: John Rawls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century.
		What Rawls is arguing is that taking a very minimal assumption about human nature (we rationally act in our own self interest) and assuming that no one knows his or her eventual social position, we will come up with these two principles of Justice (Justice as Fairness).
		Rawls is not a revolutionary trying to reinvent society; he is a theoritical moral philosopher, a professional academic researcher, who seeks to isolate the basic principles that define what we mean by "Justice".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674000781?v=glance (3105 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : John Rawls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples.
		In 1964 he moved to Harvard University, where he remained for almost forty years.
		Rawls' work has crossed disciplinary lines, receiving serious attention from economists, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, and theologians.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /John_Rawls (1865 words)

	CNN.com - Lou Rawls dead at 72 - Jan 6, 2006
		Rawls was born on December 1, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois.
		Rawls sang in a variety of genres, from gospel to soul to standards.
		Rawls was diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2004 and brain cancer in May 2005, according to the AP.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/06/obit.rawls (766 words)

	Lou Rawls personal appearances, lou rawls
		Rawls left the group to enlist in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, home of the "Screaming Eagles", and in 1958 rejoined the singers.
		Lou Rawls was on the road singing background with Sam Cooke when an accident occurred that left Cooke unharmed, a third person dead, and Rawls in a coma for five and one-half days with a memory loss for three months.
		Rawls was also featured on the Garfield soundtrack album released in conjunction with the first special.
	www.barberusa.com /adult/rawls_lou.html (1350 words)

	Meet Wilson Rawls
		When Wilson Rawls was a child, his mother ordered books through the mail, read them to Rawls and his siblings, and then let them take turns reading the books on their own.
		In the late 1950s, just before he got married, Rawls decided he would give up the idea of writing and become a more "serious" person.
		Rawls lived in the town for 17 years, and he rewrote Where the Red Fern Grows there.
	www.eduplace.com /kids/hmr/mtai/rawls.html (294 words)

	Rawlsgam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		John Rawls is a major contemporary defender of a liberal notion of justice.
		Rawls recognizes both strengths and weaknesses in socialist, capitalist, and religious societies.
		Rawls addresses two forms of tyranny that can arise from the liberal traditions and two types of tyranny that can arise from communitarian traditions.
	www.montgomerycollege.edu /~bsoderbe/rawlsgam.htm (1753 words)

	Singer Lou Rawls dies of cancer at 72 - R&B/SOUL MUSIC - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rawls was raised on the South Side of Chicago by his grandmother, who shared her love of gospel with him.
		Rawls also was influenced by doo-wop and harmonized with his high school classmate Sam Cooke.
		Rawls was in a coma for 5 1/2 days and suffered memory loss, but was completely recovered a year later.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10737897 (1037 words)

	IFPL - Wilson Rawls - Where The Red Fern Grows
		The children's classic, "Where the Red Fern Grows," was written during the period when the author, W. Wilson Rawls, lived here in Idaho Falls, Idaho from 1958 to 1975.
		Information for this website was drawn from the materials collected by Madelaine Love in 1997 as a part of the "Woodrow Wilson Rawls: Dreams Can Come True" research project funded by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and the Idaho Falls Public Library.
		The original interview tapes and transcripts, photographs and other materials are housed in the Idaho Room of the Idaho Falls Public Library and used with permission.
	www.ifpl.org /rawls (197 words)

	Rawls--Justice as Fairness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Harvard philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002) developed a conception of justice as fairness in his now classic work A Theory of Justice.
		Rawls suggests that you imagine yourself in an original position behind a veil of ignorance.
		Rawls argues that in a similar manner, the rational individual would only choose to establish a society that would at least conform to the following two rules:
	webs.wofford.edu /kaycd/ethics/justice.htm (531 words)

	Wilson Rawls Author Profile
		The film of the book was narrated briefly by Wilson Rawls in the 1970s, but he had nothing to do with the movie/video sequel or with the new video, neither of which have enjoyed critical success.
		His speech, nearly always the same, was the story of his life and how he came to write, destroy, and then resurrect his famous book.
		When I told them of Rawls' adventures in rewriting his famous book in the midst of their lovely city, many were amazed: they had no idea it had been written there.
	www.trelease-on-reading.com /rawls.html (1179 words)

	The Rawls Group homepage
		The Rawls Group is dedicated to business succession by preserving and perpetuating family business legacies through the next generation.
		The Rawls Group defines a family business as one where two or more people are in business together for reasons beyond financial gain.
		As succession planners, The Rawls Group Associates are team players who work in a “quarterback” role with you, your family, attorneys, accountants and other advisors to follow a well-defined service process.
	www.rawlsco.com (161 words)

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