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John Rawls, Theorist on Justice, Is Dead at 82. John Rawls, the American political theorist whose work gave new meaning and resonance to the concepts of justice and liberalism, died on Sunday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 82. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Margaret, said.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. John Rawls (1921â2002) John Rawls was arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. He wrote a series of highly influential articles in the 1950s and â60s that helped refocus Anglo-American moral and political philosophy on substantive problems about what we ought to do.