An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

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

A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.