John Rawls - Society Quotes

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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
In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage.

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

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Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.

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Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

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No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

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The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

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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 tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

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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, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

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A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

John Rawls