The Idea Of Public Reason Has To

Justice Is The First Virtue Of Social Institutions.

There Are Various Ways You Might Define The Common Good, But That Would Be One Way You Could Do It.

Justice As Fairness Provides What We Want.

If You Compare The United States With Europe, My View Is That What Happened In Europe Is That The Church Became Deeply Distrusted By People, Because It Sided With The Monarchs. It Instituted The Inquisition And Became Part Of The Repressive State Apparatus. That Never Happened Here. We Don't Have That History.

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