called that part of his philosophy which dealt with the normative principles of a just social order in modern conditions, he intended to follow a line of reasoning that was very different from the deductions of rational right in Kant or Fichte. First, he argued, since subjects were connected from the start by intersubjective relations, a justification of general principles of justice could not arise from the atomistic idea that the freedom of the individual essentially consisted in the arbitrary exercise of a subject’s own will, undisturbed and uninfluenced by others. This led, second, to his equally unchanged objective of devising general principles of justice that would legitimize those social conditions under which each subject is able to perceive the liberty of the other as the prerequisite of his own self-realization.