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Dilemma Quote by John Rawls

“The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.” quote by John Rawls — Download Open image

“The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.”

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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 should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree…

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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Anyone who will look at my life from the outside won't see the struggles inside. Sometimes, things are not always as we see or percept them. We can't always live in an environment where there is only black and white. Sometimes we come across dilemmas like choosing between their happiness and ours. And of course, without taking into consideration right…

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

George Bernard Shaw

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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and…

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Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because…

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this.…

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition…

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical…

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The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born!…

Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.

Francois Hollande

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is…

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story…

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To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is…

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