Abstract

This essay will defend, in light of Kok-Chor Tan's critique, G. A. Cohen's position that justice should be conceived as an extensive project, whose purview includes personal choices as well as institutional structures, and that its content should be expressed not just in rules or laws, but in a culture or ethos which would guide society’s interpersonal interactions. This is primarily achieved by clarifying various aspects of Cohen's position, proving it more attractive than Tan characterizes it as being