It begryp ‘sosjale rjochtfeardichheid’ spile in grutte rol yn syn tinken. Hy bepleitet in sterke beskerming fan grûnrjochten en –frijheden foar elkenien. Sosjale of ekonomyske ûngelykheid is inkel dan akseptabel, as elkenien likense kânsen hat om in hegere posysje te berikken en as de minstbedielden absolút foardiel hawwe fan de relative ûngelykheid.
Publikaasjes
Boeken
A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. 1999 ferskynde in nije ferzje.
Political Liberalism. Columbia University Press, 1993. De paperback is wiidweidiger as de ynbûne edysje.
The Law of Peoples. Met daarin 'The Idea of Public Reason Revisited' Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999.
Collected Papers. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2001. In koarte werjefte fan de teoryen fan Rawls.
Artikels
A Study in the Grounds of Ethical Knowledge., dissertaasje, Princeton University, 1950.
Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics. Philosophical Review (april 1951), 60 (2): 177-197.
Two Concepts of Rules. Philosophical Review (jannewaris 1955), 64 (1):3-32.
Justice as Fairness. Journal of Philosophy (oktober 24, 1957), 54 (22): 653-662.
Justice as Fairness. Philosophical Review (april 1958), 67 (2): 164-194.
The Sense of Justice. Philosophical Review (July 1963), 72 (3): 281-305.
Distributive Justice: Some Addenda. Natural Law Forum (1968), 13: 51-71.
Reply to Lyons and Teitelman. Journal of Philosophy (5 oktober, 1972), 69 (18): 556-557.
Reply to Alexander and Musgrave. Quarterly Journal of Economics (novimber 1974), 88 (4): 633-655.