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wPuri sermonis amator |
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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wTuesday, May 20, 2003 |
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Third Greatest Philosopher of the Twentieth CenturyRawls's Life: The quiet American
From then on the Rawls story is of slow, thorough and detailed work, culminating in the publication of his magnum opus A Theory of Justice in 1971. It is one of the few works of 20th century philosophy that many contemporaries believe will enter the canon of the great texts. It has sold in excess of 300,000 copies in the US alone and has been translated into 27 languages. Such is the literature it has generated that the most comprehensive Rawls bibliography contains around 5,000 items. So what if none of you have ever heard of him?
I'm entitled to post esoteric things on occasion. If there's interest, I'll write more about Rawls later and why I like him so much. But I wonder if you people ever pay attention to me when I ramble on about Philosophy. So, a quiz - if Rawls is my third favorite, who are the first two?
Hint: They all wrote in English.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 11:17 PM
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