Proper noun
Rawls (plural Rawlses)
A surname transferred from the given name.
Rawls
plural of Rawl
According to most contemporary theories of justice, justice is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought." Source: Internet
Before his death in January 2006, Rawls' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year. Source: Internet
And I only read Rawls because I took a class taught by Stanley Fish in my third year of law school. Source: Internet
Historians James Rawls and Walton Bean have postulated that were it not for the discovery of gold, Oregon might have been granted statehood ahead of California, and therefore the first "Pacific Railroad might have been built to that state." Source: Internet
Argues that not only is world government necessary if we want to deal successfully with global problems it is also, pace Kant and Rawls, desirable in its own right. Source: Internet
In testing how well these elements fit and work together, Rawls based a key test of legitimacy on the theories of social contract. Source: Internet