What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.
John RawlsReligious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
John RawlsThe extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
John Rawls