The first is Glaucon's claim that people act justly unwillingly.
Second, the principle of "the wedge": that "you should not act justly now for fear of raising expectations that you may act still more justly in the future".
It questions the consensus that in Rwanda there was warning, the capacity to act, and the clear opportunity to act justly, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
In his travels to Palestine, Ahad Ha'am warned that if the Zionists failed to act justly toward the Arabs there would be trouble: "The natives are not just going to step aside so easily".
Although Saudi Arabia is willing and able to chart a new and divergent course if America fails to act justly with regard to Palestine, the Middle East would be far better served by continuing cooperation and good will between these longstanding allies.
He wanted, he wrote in the book's introduction, to teach readers not only how to write elegant letters but "how to think and act justly and prudently in the common concerns of life".
Ought I to act justly towards my neighbor out of my concern for him, or out of concern for God?
With a stable sense of their own value and a reasonable hope of achieving their aims, citizens will want to act justly for the right reasons.
Much of political philosophy consists in attempts to produce deductive normative arguments intended to convince an unjust agent that she has reasons to act justly.
One does not act justly, on this account, by deciding not to comply with the state one lives in and sending money to another state or association.
Just people, then, are not ones who occasionally act justly, or even who regularly act justly but do so out of some other motive; rather they are people who reliably act that way because they place a positive, high intrinsic value on rendering to each their due and they are good at it.
