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In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture & achievement for everyone similarly motivated & endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities & aspirations should not be affected by their social class.
~ John Rawls

The general conception of justice imposes no restrictions on what sort of inequalities are permissible; it only requires that everyone's position be improved.
~ John Rawls

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class. ~ John Rawls

I enjoy & done reading the 1st chapter. 8 more chapters to go 💪

From the standpoint of moral theory, the best account of a person's sense of justice is not the one which fits his judgements prior to his examining any conception of justice, but rather the one which matches his judgements in reflective equilibrium. ~ John Rawls

A conception of justice characterises our moral sensibility when the everyday judgements we do make are in accordance with its principles. These principles can serve as part of the premises of an argument which arrives at the matching judgements. We do not understand our sense of justice until we know in some systematic way covering a wide range of cases what these principles are. ~ John Rawls

A conception of justice cannot be deduced from self-evident premises or conditions on principles; instead, its justification is a matter of the mutual support of many considerations, of everything fitting together into one coherent view. ~ John Rawls