John Rawls Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Rawls
John Rawls Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
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.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.