My Goal Is First Of All To

To Argue About Justice Is Unavoidably To Argue About Virtues, About Substantive Moral And Even Spiritual Questions.

Markets Are Useful Instruments For Organizing Productive Activity. But Unless We Want To Let The Market Rewrite The Norms That Govern Social Institutions, We Need A Public Debate About The Moral Limits Of Markets.

There Is A Tendency To Think That If We Engage Too Directly With Moral Questions In Politics, That's A Recipe For Disagreement, And For That Matter, A Recipe For Intolerance And Coercion.

Self-knowledge Is Like Lost Innocence; However Unsettling You Find It, It Can Never Be 'unthought' Or 'unknown'.

I Do Think It Is Very Important That The Religious Communities Do Try To Bring Their Teachings And Their Insights To Bear On The Stem Cell Debate And On The Debate About Genetic Engineering.