Search results
- The “veil of ignorance is a moral reasoning device designed to ” promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options.
www.jstor.org › stable › 26863070
People also ask
What is the veil of ignorance?
Who invented the veil of ignorance?
What is rawls'veil of ignorance'?
What does Rawls think about the veil of ignorance?
- On John Rawls. Once a devout Christian on the path to priesthood, the horrors of the Second World War plunged John Rawls into liberalism. Rawls was born in the United States and enrolled in Kent School, which prepared students for priesthood.
- Social Contract Theory. In the 17th and 18th centuries, philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau attempted to scrutinize and justify the existence of an organized government by comparing it to the “state of nature.”
- Justice as Fairness. Rawls’ version of liberalism is an egalitarian one, based on the use of justice to resolve the conflict between freedom and equality, or—more concretely put—between individual liberty and state intervention.
- Original Position. Widely acclaimed as a thought experiment, the Original Position is a precondition for Rawls’ justice as fairness. Rawls imagines that his justice would have been conceived in the “state of nature,” the state before any social contracts had been entered into.
Dec 20, 2008 · The main distinguishing feature of the original position is “the veil of ignorance”: To ensure complete impartiality of judgment, the parties are deprived of all knowledge of their personal characteristics and conceptions of the good, and of social and historical circumstances.
The veil of ignorance is a very important part of Rawls’ argument in A Theory of Justice . It allows us to evaluate possible actions without prejudice. This makes it...
veil of ignorance rule (more briefly a "veil rule") is a rule that suppresses self-interested behavior on the part of decisionmakers; it does so by subjecting the decisionmakers to uncertainty about the distribution of benefits and burdens that will result from a decision.'
- Adrian Vermeule
- 2001
The Veil of Ignorance is a way of working out the basic institutions and structures of a just society. According to Rawls, 49 working out what justice requires demands that we think as if we are building society from the ground up, in a way that everyone who is reasonable can accept.
Sep 27, 2023 · The Veil of Ignorance is a thought experiment and philosophical concept introduced by the American philosopher John Rawls in his groundbreaking 1971 work, "A Theory of Justice." It serves as a...
The veil permits them to know ‘the general facts of human society’ such as ‘political affairs and the principles of economic theory…whatever general facts affect the choice of the principles of justice’.
