"John Rawls's argument that all are equally worthy of self-esteem "is almost a parody of this tendency, writing hundreds of pages to persuade men, and proposing a scheme of government that would force them, not to despise anyone."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
John Rawls in “The Closing of the American Mind”, in Political Criticism, p. 95.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Despise
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls (21 February 1921 – 24 November 2002) was an American philosopher, and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford. His magnum opus, A Theory of Justice (1971), was hailed at the time of its publication as "the most important work in moral philosophy since the end of World War II, and is now regarded as one of the primary texts in politic
77 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by John Rawls →
Related Quotes
"We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception."
"Ideal legislators do not vote their interests."
"The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing …"
"An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception."
"Essentially the fault lies in the fact that the democratic political process is at best regulated rivalry; it does no…"
"The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results."
"An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is lim…"
"There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of …"
"Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence."
"Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable."