There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

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.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.