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John Rawls Inspirational Quotes (43)

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We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
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Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.
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The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
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There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.
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[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
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The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.
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Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
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A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.
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The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
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The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
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Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
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The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
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An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
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A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.
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Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
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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.
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The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.
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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.
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