Passage: John Bordley Rawls (; 21 ga Fabrairu, 1921 <unk> Nuwamba 24, 2002) wani masanin falsafar halin kirki ne na Amurka da kuma falsafar siyasa a cikin al'adar 'yanci. Rawls ya karbi kyautar Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy da National Humanities Medal a 1999, wanda Shugaba Bill Clinton ya gabatar, don sanin yadda aikin Rawls "ya taimaka wa dukan al'ummar Amirkawa masu ilimi su sake farfado da bangaskiyarsu a cikin dimokuradiyya kanta".A cikin gabatarwar 1990 zuwa filin, Will Kymlicka ya rubuta cewa "an yarda da cewa sabon farfadowa na falsafar siyasa na yau da kullum ya fara tare da wallafa littafin John Rawls A Theory of Justice a shekarar 1971. "Rawls sau da yawa an bayyana shi a matsayin mafi muhimmanci masanin falsafar siyasa na karni na 20.
21 ga Fabrairu, 1921 <unk> Nuwamba 24, 2002