Peace Surely Is A Good

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.

The Claims Of Existing Social Arrangements And Of Self Interest Have Been Duly Allowed For. We Cannot At The End Count Them A Second Time Because We Do Not Like The Result.

The Natural Distribution Is Neither Just Nor Unjust; Nor Is It Unjust That Persons Are Born Into Society At Some Particular Position. These Are Simply Natural Facts. What Is Just And Unjust Is The Way That Institutions Deal With These Facts.

Peace Surely Is A Good Reason, Yes. But There Are Other Reasons Too.

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.