let us leave aside questions about his dope epistemology and concentrate on this claim purely as a principle about explanation. We can see how much work it is doing here. Most obviously, if forces the discussion of justice to be a discussion solely about the holdings of individuals. This is, to say the least, restrictive there are question about how desirable, how just a society is , questions which are larger than that, There are for example, questions about collective goods, goods which are not privately held but publicly provided