Rawls
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Rawls
Theories of Ethics: John Rawls
John Rawls was born in 1921 to William Rawls and Anna Stump in Baltimore, Maryland, as the second of five children. He attended Princeton, where he “became deeply concerned with theology and its doctrines.”1 Rawls considered studying to be an Episcopal priest, but instead, he joined the military after getting his Bachelors of Arts in 1943. While on tour in the Japan, he witnessed the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombings, and soon returned to Princeton in order to obtain a doctorate of moral philosophy. He married Margaret Fox in 1949. After a distinguished teaching career lasting nearly 50 years, he suffered a chain of...
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