Rawls’s account of international toleration in The Law of Peoples has been the subject of vigorous critiques by … thus a concept that is internal to liberal political justification at the international level. Reading Rawls in this way … permits a coherent and attractive defence of his strategy of toleration and of his international theory as a whole. …

subject to the principles of justice if its members are to be free and equal members of society; and, second, that without … such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of â …

individual advantage, thereby raising tensions for liberal theories of justice that are committed both to basic liberties and to … distributive fairness. I first illustrate these tensions by reference to John Rawls's theory. I then argue that although Nussbaum …'s theory, which emerged in dialogue with Rawls's, improves upon it in this regard, it remains subject to the same basic …