Episode 6: Political Philosopher John Rawls and Occupy Wall Street: A Discussion with Stanford Professor Joshua Cohen

To celebrate Bank Transfer Day, I sat down with
Stanford Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and
Law Joshua Cohen to discuss how political philosopher
John Rawls might view the Occupy Wall Street
movement. The late Rawls, a Harvard professor and the author of
A Theory of Justice, is widely
recognized as the most important political philosopher of the
20th century. His theory about how to set up a just society,
called ‘Justice as Fairness,’ could provide a legitimate
philosophical framework for the Occupy the Wall Street movement.
We talked about what the theory says, and what it means for the
99%.


Links:



Read the biography of Professor Joshua Cohen, Martha
Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society


Buy A Theory of Justice by John Rawls from
Amazon.com


Read about John Rawls on Wikipedia


Read “Rawls on Wall Street” by Steven Mazie in the New
York Times


Read “Dancing to the Port: Occupy Oakland’s General
Strike” by Danelle Morton of Boston Review