John Rawls on Ethics
Browse 5 quotations attributed to John Rawls, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to John Rawls and filed under "Ethics" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to John Rawls, entry #157998: "There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry."
Attributed to John Rawls, entry #64755: "The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged."
5 Quotes by John Rawls on Ethics
"There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry."
"The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged."
"We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception."
"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."
"First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions."