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Barbara Herman, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, pointed to the number of successful female students Rawls??€™ had as another mark of his pioneering liberal thought in the 1960s...
Joshua Cohen, chair of the political science department at MIT and a former student of Rawls, also remembered being impressed by Rawls??€™ genuine interest in his students, and cited a time when Rawls called him up specifically to ask how a seminar of his had gone...
Cohen said Rawls??€™pleasant manner around those who knew him seemed rooted in his belief that moral and political philosophy should have practical value in everyday life...
Other speakers said Rawls??€™ philosophy served as the foundation for their scholarly work...
...Rawls??€™ contribution to his profession earned him mountains of praise: an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Harvard, a National Humanities Medal, professorships at presitigious universities across America, all beginning with a Fulbright Scholarship at Oxford. But more than any of the honors and esteem that Rawls earned, his lasting legacy will be immortalized in the students whose intellectual and moral lives he shaped with his teaching, mentoring and advising...