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JOHN RAWLS
Né en 1921 à Baltimore. Entre à Princeton en 1939. Interrompt ses études.
Part pour l’armée et participe aux opérations dans le Pacifique. Doctorat de
philosophie en 1949. Professeur à la Cornell University, puis au Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, et de 1959 à 1991 à Harvard. Mort le 2002 le 26
novembre 2002.
1) Ouvrages et articles de Rawls (une sélection) en anglais
1950
“ A Study in the Grounds of Ethical Knowledge: Considered with Reference
to Judgments on the Moral Worth of Character ”, Princeton University, 1950.
1951
“ Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics”, Philosophical Review (April
1951), 60 (2), p. 177-197.
1955
“ Two Concepts of Rules ”, Philosophical Review (January 1955), 64 (1), p.
3-32.
1957
“ Justice as Fairness ”, Journal of Philosophy (October 24, 1957), 54 (22), p.
653-662.
1963
“ Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice.”, Nomos, VI: Justice, p.
98-125, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy,
New York, Atherton Press, 1963.
“ The Sense of Justice ”, Philosophical Review (July 1963), 72 (3), p.
281-305.
1964
“ Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play ”, Law and Philosophy: A
Symposium, p. 3-18, New York University Press, 1964.
1967

“ Distributive Justice ”, Philosophy, Politics, and Society. Third Series, p.
58-82, London, Blackwell ; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1967.
1969
“ Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics ”, Ethics, p. 48-70. New York ,
Harper & Row, 1969.
“ The Justification of Civil Disobedience ”, Civil Disobedience: Theory and
Practice, p. 240-255. New York, Pegasus Books, 1969.
1971
“ Justice as Reciprocity ”, Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill: With Critical
Essays, p. 242-268, New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1971. A Theory of Justice, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972.
1973
“ Punishment as a Practice ”, Punishment and Rehabilitation, p. 83-91.
Belmont, California, Wadsworth, 1973.
1974
“ Some Reasons for the Maximin Criterion ”, American Economic Review
(May 1974), 64 (2), p. 141-146.
1975
“ Fairness to Goodness ”, Philosophical Review (October 1975), 84 (4),p.
536-554.
“ The Independence of Moral Theory ”, Proceedings and Addresses of the
American Philosophical Association (November 1975).
“ A Kantian Conception of Equality ”, Cambridge Review [London]
(February 1975), 96 (2225), p. 94-99.
1976
“ Justice as Reciprocity ”, Moral Problems in Medicine, p. 443-454.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
1977
“ The Basic Structure as Subject ”, American Philosophical Quarterly
(April 1977), 14 (2), p. 159-165.
1978
“ The Basic Structure as Subject ”, Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of
William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard B. Brandt, p. 47-71,
Dordrecht, Holland & Boston, Reidel, 1978.

1979
“ The Concept of Justice in Political Economy ”, Philosophy and Economic
Theory, p. 164-169. Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford & New York,
Oxford University Press, 1979.
“ Constitutional Liberty and the Concept of Justice ”, Rights, p. 26-45.
Belmont, California, Wadsworth, 1979.
“ Economic Systems ”, Ethical Theory and Business, p. 57-63. Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
“ An Egalitarian Theory of Justice ”, Ethical Theory and Business, p. 35-42.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
“ A Well-Ordered Society ”, Philosophy, Politics and Society. 5th Series, p.
6-20. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press ; Oxford, Blackwell, 1979.
1980
“ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ”, Journal of Philosophy
(September 1980), 77 (9), p. 515-572.
“ Punishment ”, Philosophy of Law, 2d ed., p. 577-581, Belmont,
California, Wadsworth, 1980.
1981
“ Justice as Reciprocity ”, Choice and Action: An Introduction to Ethics, p.
292-323, New York, Macmillan ; London, Collier-Macmillan, 1981.
1982
“ The Basic Liberties and Their Priority ”, The Tanner Lectures on Human
Values, III (1982), p. 1-87. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press ; Cambridge
University Press, 1982.
“ Social Unity and Primary Goods. ”, Utilitarianism and Beyond, p.
159-185, Cambridge University Press (Collected Papers, 1999)
1985
“ Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical ”, Philosophy & Public
Affairs (Summer 1985), 14 3), p. 223-251.
1987
“ The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus ”, Oxford Journal for Legal Studies
(Spring 1987), 7 (1), p. 1-25.
1988
“ Classical Utilitarianism ”, Consequentialism and Its Critics, p. 4-19.
Oxford Readings in Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

1989
“ The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus ”, New York
University Law Review (May 1989), 64 (2) , p. 233-255.
“ Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy ”, Kant's Transcendental Deductions:
The Three Critiques and the “ Opus postumum ”, Stanford Series in Philosophy,
Studies in Kant and German Idealism, Stanford, California: Stanford University
Press, 1989.
1990
“ Justice as Fairness: A restatement ”, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1990
1991
“ Roderick Firth: His Life and Work ”, Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research (March 1991), 51 (1), p. 109-118.
1993
“ The Law of Peoples ”,Critical Inquiry (Fall 1993), 20 (1), p. 36-68.
Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
1995
“ Reconcilation through the Public Use of Reason ”, Journal of Philosophy
(March 1995), 92 (3), p. 132-180
Reply to Habermas, Columbia University Press, 1995
1999
Collected Papers, 1999
2000
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, Harvard University Press,
2000
2) Traductions françaises
“ La justice comme équité ”, tr. J.F. Spitz,Philosophie, n° 14, 1984
Théorie de la justice, tr. C. Audard Seuil, 1987
“ L'Idée d'un consensus par recoupement ”, tr. Alexis Tchoudnowsky Revue
de Métaphysique et de Morale, janvier-mars 1988, 93 (1), p. 3-32,
“ La Priorité du juste et les conceptions du Bien ”, tr. Alexis Tchoudnowsky
et Catherine Audard Archives de Philosophie du Droit (1988), 33, p. 39-59.

“ La Théorie de la justice comme équité: une théorie politique et non pas
métaphysique ”, Individu et justice sociale: Autour de John Rawls, Seuil, 1988
“ Les Libertés de base et leur priorité ”, Critique, juin-juillet 1989, 45
(505-506), p. 423-465.
Justice et démocratie, tr. sous la dir. de C. Audard, Seuil, 1993 (rassemble
les principaux articles de la période 1978-1989)
Libéralisme politique, tr. C. Audard, PUF, 1995
Débat sur la justice politique – John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, tr. C.
Audard, R. Rochlitz, Cerf,1997
Le droit des gens, tr. B. Guillaume, Esprit, 1996 ; 10/18, 1998
“ L’indépendance de la Théorie morale ” (1974) – repris dans Collected
Papers (1999) – Cités, janvier 2001
Leçons sur l’histoire de la philosophie morale, tr. M. Saint-Upery et B.
Guillarme, La découverte, 2002
A paraître, la traduction de “ Justice as fairness: A restatement ”, La
Découverte
3) Quelques articles et commentaires disponibles en français consacrés
à la pensée de Rawls
J.-P. Dupuy, Le libéralisme et la question de la justice sociale, CREA-Ecole
polytechnique, 1984
L'âge de la science, n° 1, Ethique et philosophie politique, 1988
C. Audard (et al.) Individu et justice sociale, Autour de J. Rawls, Seuil, 1988
Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1988, n° 1, “ John Rawls, le
politique ”
Critique, vol. 505-506, “ John Rawls, Justice et libertés ”,1989
J.F. Kervegan, “ Y-a-t-il une philosophie libérale ? – Remarques sur les
œuvres de J. Rawls et F. von Hayek ”, Rue Descartes/3, 1992