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John Rawls
 
Date of birth: 21 February 1921
Date of death: 24 November 2002
Country Of Origin: America
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Philosopher

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   John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples. He was an important political philosopher of the 20th century in the English-speaking world.

John Borden (Bordley) Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 21, 1921. He was the second of five sons to Willi .... (More...)
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" Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. "

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" Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. "

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" In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. "

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" The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. "

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" The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. "

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" The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. "

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" To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist. "

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