A Society Regulated By A Public Sense

The Concept Of Justice I Take To Be Defined, Then, By The Role Of Its Principles In Assigning Rights And Duties And In Defining The Appropriate Division Of Social Advantages. A Conception Of Justice Is An Interpretation Of This Role.

Citizens Can Have Their Own Grounding In Their Comprehensive Doctrines, Whatever They Happen To Be.

The Hazards Of The Generalized Prisoner's Dilemma Are Removed By The Match Between The Right And The Good.

The Circumstances Of Justice May Be Described As The Normal Conditions Under Which Human Cooperation Is Both Possible And Necessary.

Properly Understood, Then, The Desire To Act Justly Derives In Part From The Desire To Express Most Fully What We Are Or Can Be, Namely Free And Equal Rational Beings With The Liberty To Choose.