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

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

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.

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

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.