While rejecting the solution of perfectionism, many liberals
acknowledge the shortcomings of the neutrality thesis as it is usually
formulated. This is the case with John Rawls who, in his work
subsequent to A Theory of Justice, has dearly distanced himself from th
'priority of the right over the good' type of interpretation which his
communitarian critics imputed to him. He now insists that 'Justice as
fairness is not proceduraUy neutral. Clearly its principles of justice are
substantive and express far more than procedural values, and so do its
political conception of person and society, which are represented in
the original position/
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