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 the '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