Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good in the form of the means provided to assure that people can make use of their liberties, and the like.

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

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.

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

I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.