John Rawls was born in 1921 and died in 2002.
Rawls was optimistic about each individual’s potential, and restated the liberal view that human nature is mainly rational. But he was keen to underline human nature’s ‘empathetic’ dimension. Rawls also tempered the classical liberal idea that everyone was autonomous and self-determining: fate and ‘accidents of birth’, he argued, played a huge part in an individual’s prospects.
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