Rawls's Theory of Justice Is an Academic Political Philosophy

When Rawls was refining his political philosophy he was doing it, yes from Harvard. But Harvard is not cut off from planet Earth, against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and Vietnam War. Quite a lot of a theory of justice in the section which is about the application of the ideas,. is about civil disobedience, and about what it is legitimate to fight for. That question, what should we fight for, is still at the heart of Rawls's book.