Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

1. Fundamental Ideas ........1
Four Roles of Political Philosophy.........1
Society as a Fair System of Cooperation .......5
The Idea of a Well- Ordered Society ......8
The Idea of the Basic Structure ......10
Limits to our Inquiry ......12
The Idea of Free and Equal Persons .......18
Relations between the Fundamental Ideas ...........24
The Ideas of Public Justification.....26
The Idea of Reflective Equilibrium .........29
The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus ............32
2. Principles of Justice ..........39
Three Basic Points .........39
Two Principles of Justice ..42
The Problem of Distributive Justice ..........50
The Basic Structure as Subject : First Kind of Reason ...........52
The Basic Structure as Subject: Second Kind of Reason .........55
Who are the Least Advantaged ......57
The Difference Principle : Its Meaning ...........61
Objections via Counterexamples.....66
Legitimate Expectations, Entitlement, and Desert........72
On Viewing Native Endowment s as a Common Asset..........72
Summary Comments on Distributive justice and Desert........77
3. The Argument from the Original Position .....80
The Original Position .......84
The Circumstances of Justice .......84
4. Institutions of a Just Basic Structure ............135
5. The Question of Stability ........180