ABSTRACT
Justice, in the egalitarian liberal tradition that Rawls exemplifies, should provide principles that fairly distribute the benefits and burdens of social cooperation among free and equal persons given the circum stances of justice. In Chapter Three we probed Raw ls’s conceptions of the circumstances of justice and the norms that pertain to a conception of persons as free and equal. In this chapter we continue to ask about the inclusion of dependency concerns in the elemental concepts needed to provide a well-ordered society-one in which justice is provided for all. Here we focus on the concepts that determine what are seen as ben efits and burdens: the notions of social goods and the idea of social cooperation.
