Religion Quotes by John Rawls

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

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

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

— John Rawls

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

— John Rawls

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

— John Rawls

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to…

— John Rawls

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

— John Rawls

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…

— John Rawls