List of John Rawls Quotes

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John Rawls
Total Quotes 79
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
Hazards Dilemma Prisoner
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. if these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.
Expectations Would Be Unjust
Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
Perfectionism Constructive
There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.
Would Be Might Way
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.
Doctrine Citizens Grounding
Peace surely is a good reason, yes. but there are other reasons too.
Reason
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about god's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.
Suicide Talking Afterlife
Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.
Argument Reason Be Good
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.
Justice Political Essentials
First of all, principles should be general. that is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
Names Principles Would Be
The question is, we have a particular problem. how many religions are there in the united states? how are they going to get on together? one way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in france in the sixteenth century. that's a possibility.
Fighting Together France
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. we cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
Self Social Ends
  • Born: February 21, 1921
  • Died: November 24, 2002
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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