Rawls says that the veil of ignorance allows us to choose principles to organize our common life sub specieaeternitatis —that is, with a God’s-eye view.

Summary The signature work of John Rawls, one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century, is A Theory of Justice (1971). Rawls articulates approaches to liberty and ...

Rawls’ ambitious tome offers “a systematic theory of social justice for liberal democracies”, says the Cambridge philosopher Sarah Fine. The key thought experiment in Rawls’ theory is as follows.

That is, place yourself behind a veil of ignorance, which renowned political philosopher John Rawls devised to help pursue objective, clear-sighted, and just analyses.

This is the veil of ignorance, a thought exercise devised by philosopher John Rawls. And when applied, it can influence your policy preferences.

This thought experiment is what the great American philosopher John Rawls dubbed the “Veil of Ignorance” in his 1971 book A Theory of Justice.

Alexandre Lefebvre’s Liberalism as a Way of Life belongs to the school of Anglo-American political philosophy whose defining figure was Harvard’s John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice and ...

One of my chief gripes with John Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” is the question-begging assumption that the best way to think about how to organize society from scratch is to start from the ...

In his celebrated thought experiment, citizens imagine sitting behind a “veil of ignorance”, where they do not know anything about their own social standing, and must then navigate the requirements of ...