An Intuitionist Conception Of Justice Is, One

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 Naturally Advantaged Are Not To Gain Merely Because They Are More Gifted, But Only To Cover The Costs Of Training And Education And For Using Their Endowments In Ways That Help The Less Fortunate As Well.

What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines: For Example, That They Argue Against Physician-assisted Suicide Not Just By Speculating About God's Wrath Or The Afterlife, But By Talking About What They See As Assisted Suicide's Potential Injustices.

An Injustice Is Tolerable Only When It Is Necessary To Avoid An Even Greater Injustice.

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.