Conception Quote by John Rawls

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.”

— Albert Einstein

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence,…

— Albert Einstein

“From being the object of a religious experience and sanctified, poverty became the object of a moral conception that condemned”

— Michel Foucault

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

— Stephen Leacock

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people…

— Jonathan Haidt

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

— John Scott

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

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

— John Rawls

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

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

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