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“Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.”

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

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First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

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A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so…

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If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by…

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Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,…

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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.

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Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if…

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When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements…

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“Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or…

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

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

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I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

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Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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