John Rawls
John Rawls
John Bordley Rawlswas an American moral and political philosopher. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999, the latter presented by President Bill Clinton, in recognition of how Rawls's work "helped a whole generation of learned Americans revive their faith in democracy itself."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth21 February 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
We had occupied those buildings for 31 years, ... Nothing changed as result of the sale except ownership.