owhere is the new emphasis on political rather than moraltheory more apparent than in Rawls's treatment of the primary goods,namely, that minimal list of goods considered by the rational contractors in the original position. In Theory, the primary goods?rightsand liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth, and selfrespect?were those things needed by any agent, because they are theelements of any rational plan of

10 Rawls's understanding of the primary goods is now based on a political rather than a general moral oranthropological conception of human needs. They are the needs ofcitizens in a certain kind of regime, namely, the liberal regime. Therefore, Rawls asks not what anyone needs but what citizens of a liberalregime need