John Rawls Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.

  John Rawls

  Heart, Self, Views

• 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.

  John Rawls

  Pain, Animal, Compassion

• I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Support, Feelings

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.513, Harvard University Press

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