"When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, fro…"

"Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art.…"

"Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, bo…"

"Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So s…"

"Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against…"

"Some anarchists have claimed not merely that we would be better off without a state, but that any state necessarily v…"

"1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that hol…"

"A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means."

"Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just."

"There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual peopl…"