A theory of Justice: Revised Edition

§57:326–331, §59:335–343; defined,
320-323; to oppose savings policies,
261–262; as problem for democratic
theory, 319; three parts of theory of,
319; and sense of justice, 320, 328,
339–340; as a political act, 320–321;
and fidelity to law, 322; distinguished
from militant action, 322–323; appro-
priate objects of, 326–327; three condi-
tions of justification of, 326–329; prob-
lem of fairness in, 328–329; wisdom
of, 330; and principle of fairness, 330–
331; role of in maintaining democratic
constitution, 335–338; theory of
founded on conception of justice, 337–
338; place of in constitutional theory,
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338; and types of consensus, 340; citi-
zen’s responsibility in, 341–343
Civility, duty of, 312
Clark, J. B., 271n, 271–272n
Clark, J. M., 271n, 272n
Close-knitness, 70–72
Cohen, Marshall, 320n
Commending, 373–374
Common good, defined, 205, 217
Common interest, principle of: defined,
83, 217; and equal citizenship, 83; and
toleration, 186–190; as political con-
vention, 280
Completeness, approximative, defined,
300–301, 496
Complexity, limits on, 40, 114, 122–123,
453–454
Condorcet, Marquis de, 314–315
Congruence: concept of defined, 350,
399; problem of defined, 450–451,
496–499; argument for, 499–505. 
See
also
Sense of justice, good of
Conscience: 
see
Equal liberty of
Conscientious evasion, 324
Conscientious refusal: §56:323–326,
§58:331–335; defined, 323–324; distin-
guished from conscientious evasion,
324; contrasted with civil disobedi-
ence, 324–325; toleration of and erring
conscience, 325; general pacifism as
natural departure, 325; law of nations
derived, 331–333; justification of in
case of particular war, 333–335; and
conscription, 333–334; and contingent
pacifism, 334–335; discriminating pre-
ferred to general pacificism, 335
Conscription, 333–334
Consensus, 16–17, 453–454, 508–510;
overlapping vs. strict, 340
Considered judgments: defined, 42; fixed
points of, 17–18, 280, 507–509; role of
in justification, 17–19, 104, 507–509;
and reflective equilibrium, 18–19, 42–
44; as facts to be explained by moral
theory, 44
Constant, Benjamin, 177, 195
Constitution: justice of, 172–173, 194–
206, 314; case of imperfect procedural
justice, 173–174, 194, 311, 316; major-
ity rule in, 200–203, 312–314; of ideal
procedure of public deliberation, 315–
316
Constitutional convention, stage of, 172–
174
Constitutional democracy: defined, 195–
196, 199–200; example of just basic
structure, 171; constitutional devices
of, 197; historical failure of, 198–199;
and sense of justice, 214; liberties of,
best founded on justice, 214; and just
savings problems, 260–262; place
of majority rule in, 312–314; economic
theory of, 316–318; place of civil
disobedience in theory of, 319, 338;
role of civil disobedience in, 335–
338. 
See
also
Equal participation, prin-
ciple of
Constitutive rules, 49–50, 303
Content of conceptions of right: pointless
excluded, 129–130; and psychological
understandability, 418–419, 426–427
Contingencies of social circumstance:
and intuitive idea of the principles of
justice, 14; in system of natural liberty,
62–63; in liberal equality, 63–64; in
democratic equality and difference prin-
ciple, 65, 67–68, 88–90
Continuity, principle of, 369
Contribution, precept of, 269, 270, 271,
273–274
Contribution curve, 66–67, 89–90
Coordination, problem of, 5–6
Cooper, J. M., 374n
Counter-examples, limited usefulness of,
45
Counting principles of rational choice,
364, 365; in first-person procedure of
choice, 483; and dominant ends, 484,
485–486; in hedonism, 486–487
Culture: claims of in justice as fairness,
87, 289, 291–292, 387–388; claims of
in perfectionism, 218, 285–286, 288–
289; role of historical tradition of in so-
cial union, 460–461
Dahl, R. A., 198n, 317n
Darwin, Charles, 440n
Davidson, Donald, 124n, 300–301n
Definition, role of in moral theory, 44, 
95–96, 112–113, 130, 176–177, 506–
507
Deliberative rationality, §64:365–372;
defined following Sidgwick, 366–368;
in definition of rational plan of life,
358–359; and ways of judging inten-
sity of desires, 368–369; time-related
principles and the principle of continu-
ity, 369–370; as hypothetical criterion,
370, 371–372; and regret and self-
reproach, 370–371; and responsibility
to self, 371; does not imply excessive
planning, 371–372; and failure of he-
donism, 489; no way beyond, 490–
491; and unity of the self, 491–492
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Democratic equality, 57, 65–73.