Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 21, 1921 Death: November 24, 2002
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality..
Justice is happiness according to virtue..
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind..
Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another..
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simpl….
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice..
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have..
In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expect….
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance..
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions..
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or ….
The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using the….
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogma….
A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable..
Justice as fairness provides what we want..
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society..
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests..
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or re….
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them..
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place..
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this shou….