John Rawls - Rational Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

View all John Rawls Quotes

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

John Rawls

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

John Rawls

The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.

John Rawls

Being happy involves both a certain achievement in action and a rational assurance about the outcome.

John Rawls

I have assumed throughout that the persons in the original position are rational.

John Rawls