Perhaps the most striking and certainly one of the mostcontroversial features of Rawls's Theory was his argument that "theright" subordinates (for purposes of the political order) not only material interests in the economic sphere, but also individuals' fully considered conceptions of the moral good, human flourishing, and finalends.2 Hence, Rawls's theory of justice was meant to be a systematicalternative both to the economic pragmatism of other modern contracttheorists as well as to the classical tradition of perfectionism in political theory.