The Influence of Christianity on the Philosophy of John Rawls

Abstract

This article is about a contrastive analysis of Rawls’s views in mutually different periods of his philosophical development in relation to possible influences of Christian thought on his overall philosophy. The evidence of such Christian influence on his philosophy is conducted through his examination of sociability and morality as an essential ontological feature of a human being. The second principle of justice is especially emphasized as a view that has a source in Christian thought.

Keywords

• Christianity
• sociability
• morality
• justice
• personalism
• intuition