Non-AC Political Philosophy: Who Has Read John Rawls?
It was pointed out in the mod complaint thread that ACers start most of the political philosophy threads. Since the amendment to the forum constitution didn't explicitly exile political philosophy to the SMP forum, I'll post this here.
John Rawls is a significant political theorist for liberals. I haven't found it, but I think that somewhere recently was a post claiming that my fellow liberals aren't particularly well-grounded in political philosophy. For now, I am just curious about who has actually read anything by Rawls. If you want to use this thread to discuss his political philosophy or how you encountered him, then fine.
To answer my own question, I own at least one of his books, but I seem to keep falling asleep while trying to read it. I have read articles and I believe a college professor I once took a class from said that you were better off reading someone else's summary of Rawls than reading his actual text.
But, yeah, I'm mostly interested for now in finding out how well you known Rawls rather than what you think of him.
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