Four Roles of Political Philosophy -- Society as a Fair System of Cooperation -- The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society -- The Idea of the Basic Structure -- Limits to Our Inquiry -- The Idea of the Original Position -- The Idea of Free and Equal Persons -- Relations between the Fundamental Ideas -- The Idea of Public Justification -- The Idea of Reflective Equilibrium -- The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus -- Three Basic Points -- Two Principles of Justice -- The Problem of Distributive Justice -- The Basic Structure as Subject: First Kind of Reason -- The Basic Structure as Subject: Second Kind of Reason -- Who Are the Least Advantaged? -- The Difference Principle: Its Meaning -- Objections via Counterexamples -- Legitimate Expectations, Entitlement, and Desert -- On Viewing Native Endowments as a Common Asset -- Summary Comments on Distributive Justice and Desert -- The Original Position: The Set-Up -- The Circumstances of Justice -- Formal Constraints and the Veil of Ignorance -- The Idea of Public Reason -- First Fundamental Comparison -- The Structure of the Argument and the Maximin Rule -- The Argument Stressing the Third Condition -- The Priority of the Basic Liberties -- An Objection about Aversion to Uncertainty -- The Equal Basic Liberties Revisited -- The Argument Stressing the Second Condition -- Second Fundamental Comparison: Introduction -- Grounds Falling under Publicity -- Grounds Falling under Reciprocity -- Grounds Falling under Stability -- Ground against the Principle of Restricted Utility -- Comments on Equality -- Concluding Remarks -- Property-Owning Democracy: Introductory Remarks -- Some Basic Contrasts between Regimes -- Ideas of the Good in Justice as Fairness -- Constitutional versus Procedural Democracy -- The Fair Value of the Equal Political Liberties -- Denial of the Fair Value for Other Basic Liberties -- Political and Comprehensive Liberalism: A Contrast -- A Note on Head Taxes and the Priority of Liberty -- Economic Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy -- The Family as a Basic Institution -- The Flexibility of an Index of Primary Goods -- Addressing Marx's Critique of Liberalism -- Brief Comments on Leisure Time -- The Domain of the Political -- The Question of Stability -- Is Justice as Fairness Political in the Wrong Way? -- How Is Political Liberalism Possible? -- An Overlapping Consensus Not Utopian -- A Reasonable Moral Psychology -- The Good of Political Society

1. Justice
2. Fairness