Particular Position Quotes by John Rawls

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• The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a…
• Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying…
• In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
• It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must…
• Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The…
• The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
• Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation…
• A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random…
• The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and…
• The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice…

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