Abstract
Abstract John Rawls (1921–2002) was born and raised in Baltimore. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton. After graduating he served in the infantry in World War II, earning the Bronze Star. The war behind him, he returned to Princeton in 1946 to pursue a PhD in philosophy, earning his degree in 1950. After a pivotal year (1952–3) at Oxford University, he joined the philosophy department at Cornell. He spent the academic year 1959–60 visiting the Harvard philosophy department and then left Cornell to help establish the newly founded philosophy department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1962 he left MIT to join the philosophy faculty at Harvard on a permanent basis. He published his magnum opus, A Theory of Justice , in 1971. It was eventually translated into dozens of languages and has been widely studied around the world. He retired from Harvard in 1991 but continued to teach for several more years. He wrote and published until shortly before his death in 2002.
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