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First Of All, Principles Should Be General. That Is, It Must Be Possible To Formulate Them Without Use Of What Would Be Intuitively Recognized As Proper Names, Or Rigged Definite Descriptions.

In All Sectors Of Society There Should Be Roughly Equal Prospects Of Culture And Achievement For Everyone Similarly Motivated And Endowed. The Expectations Of Those With The Same Abilities And Aspirations Should Not Be Affected By Their Social Class.

There Are Two Kinds Of Comprehensive Doctrines, Religious And Secular. Those Of Religious Faith Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Secularism, And The Latter Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Religion. I Deny Both. Each Side Presumes The Basic Ideas Of Constitutional Democracy, So My Suggestion Is That We Can Make Our Political Arguments In Terms Of Public Reason. Then We Stand On Common Ground. That's How We Can Understand Each Other And Cooperate.

The Only Thing That Permits Us To Acquiesce In An Erroneous Theory Is The Lack Of A Better One, Analogously, An Injustice Is Tolerable Only When It Is Necessary To Avoid An Even Greater Injustice.

You Hear That Liberalism Lacks An Idea Of The Common Good, But I Think That's A Mistake.