We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

A just system must generate its own support.

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.