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...The magic of Rawls’ thought experiment is that people of any ideology can intuit the same thing....
...Thus does Edwards, himself of Chilean origin, summarise the outcome of this “experiment”....
...There are portraits of John Rawls, the Harvard political philosopher, who was arguably the most influential liberal theorist of the late 20th century, and Willard Van Orman Quine, the linguistic philosopher...
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...For these qualities, Doxiadis pays credit to his Harvard education, which exposed him to the political philosophy classes of Michael Sandel and the social biology of Edward Wilson....
...This article is subject to a correction and has been amended edward.luce@ft.com...
...If Nozick was the guiding spirit behind India Unbound, Das’s latest book is inspired more by John Rawls and Amartya Sen....
...Rawls was the giant of postwar US liberal philosophy. But it was only in the 1990s, when Sandel started his “Justice” lecture series at Harvard, that he began to acquire a broader following....
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