Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
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. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
