Properly Understood, Then, The Desire To Act

An Intuitionist Conception Of Justice Is, One Might Say, But Half A Conception.

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.

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.

Clearly When The Liberties Are Left Unrestricted They Collide With One Another.

The Fundamental Criterion For Judging Any Procedure Is The Justice Of Its Likely Results.