A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

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.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.