John Rawls - Expectations Quotes

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Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.

John Rawls

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

John Rawls

Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society.

John Rawls

The difference principal, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.

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A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

John Rawls