To tackle the challenges facing modern democracies, like authoritarianism and late-stage capitalism, policymakers could embrace the communitarian beliefs espoused by 20th-century philosopher John ...

In the controversial Marquette case, philosophy instructor Cheryl Abbate claimed that it is improper to say that same-sex marriage is controversial under John Rawls’s theory of justice. But in this ...

These are difficult times for liberal theorists. Fewer than thirty years after the end of the Cold War ushered in a period of unprecedented liberal ascendancy, liberalism today is in retreat—or at ...

Hsieh, Nien-he. "The Normative Study of Business Organizations: A Rawlsian Approach." In Normative Theory and Business Ethics, edited by Jeffery Smith, 93–117. Lanham, 2008.

Rawlsian social justice is the bedrock of contemporary liberalism. By David Edmonds From the trauma of the Second World War there emerged some important works in political theory, including Karl ...

Hsieh, Nien-he. "Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism." Social Theory and Practice 31, no. 1 (2005): 115–142.

Imagine a human society not so very different from our own, on which a cataclysm is about to fall. Thousands, perhaps millions, of people will die. Many others will lead shorter and less happy lives; ...