Conception Quote by John Rawls Download Open image “An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.” — John Rawls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conception Half Justice Might
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The feeling of justice might be a peculiar… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. — African Spir 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
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing...… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
