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Rawls's Justice Grounded in Tragic Sensibility
Rawls's theory of justice was grounded in a deeply tragic, Hobbesian sensibility born of his experience of mass suffering in World War II and personal loss, which is why he revered Lincoln as a figure who sustained rational democratic experimentation amid massive hatred and division.
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Cornel WestEvidence Quote
“Lincoln was the one figure who did have a tragic disposition... but he was trying to sustain some possibility for rational, democratic experimentation and social life in a context of massive hatred and contempt and division”
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