citizens are reasonable when, viewing one another as free and equal in a system of social cooperation over generations, they are prepared to offer one another fair terms of cooperation according to what they consider the most reasonable conception of political justice (PL 2005, p. 446)
本文將rationality譯為理智以相對於理性(Reason)。按拉茲,Reason與rationality的能力相關但不完全等同,理性是關於理性思考(reasoning)的能力,它包含啟動的意圖以及運作理性思考;但也因此,我們有可能以不理智的運作理性能力,比如說我們可以無意義地耗費大量時間一直運轉我們的腦袋杞人憂天的思考;這是以理性去啟動理性思考,但並不理智。
viewing one another as free and equal in a system of social cooperation over generations, they are
prepared to offer one another fair terms of cooperation according to what they consider the most reasonable conception of political justice (PL 2005, p. 446)