John Rawls Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Firsts, Virtue

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

• A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

  John Rawls

  Political, Vote, Virtue

• 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 revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

  John Rawls

  Law, Justice, Unjust

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

• Justice is happiness according to virtue.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Virtue

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.310, Harvard University Press

• A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Mean, Political

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