Happy Birthday, John Rawls
One who lacks a sense of justice lacks certain fundamental attitudes and
capacities included under the notion of humanity. Now the moral
feelings are admittedly unpleasant, in some extended sense of
unpleasant; but there is no way for us to avoid a liability to them
without disfiguring ourselves. This liability is the price of love and
trust, of friendship and affection, and of devotion to institutions and
traditions from which we have benefited and which serve the general
interests of mankind.
--John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)
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