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Veil of Ignorance - John Rawls
§ Anatole France’s statement: The majestic equality of law which forbids rich
and poor alike to steal bread and sleep under bridges - discuss how it can relate to the principle
of “veil of ignorance”
§ It needs to be the kind of system deprived by people who didn’t know it
might apply to them
§ It’s a kind of thinking which accommodates difference without your specific
interests entering
§ You’re not aware o what you are going to get, that is fairness
§ Rawls here developed
the concept of “justice as fairness” considering the situation if you are
required to draft a social contract, you can never exclude all personal
biasness and prejudices
§ Therefore, Rawl here suggests
that you should imagine yourself in an original position (original actor)
behind the veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, you know nothing of yourself
and your natural abilities, or your position in the society, morally equal
beings
§ In this position, you would look into fair principles and don’t know
whether you are going to be deprived from the law, and so will look into the
highest minimum standards of justice in the projected society
§ Take the example when you are cutting the cake and the portion (let me further explained in person)
§ Two types of ignorance; ignorance of
personal characteristics & ignorance of condition of society
§ Based on general rational self interest psychology of the original actors’
their principles of justice would be “those person would choose for the design
of a society in which his enemy is to assign him his place
§ Look into the application of Freud’s statement (on dreams and unconscious
mind) and Copernicus statement (sun is in the centre) compare these and apply
to the theory of veil of ignorance
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