The Idea Of Public Reason Has To

At Best The Principles That Economists Have Supposed The Choices Of Rational Individuals To Satisfy Can Be Presented As Guidelines For Us To Consider When We Make Our Decisions.

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.

The Fairest Rules Are Those To Which Everyone Would Agree If They Did Not Know How Much Power They Would Have.

People Can Make Arguments From The Bible If They Want To. But I Want Them To See That They Should Also Give Arguments That All Reasonable Citizens Might Agree To.

The Extreme Nature Of Dominant-end Views Is Often Concealed By The Vagueness And Ambiguity Of The End Proposed.