Rawls' View Of Ignorance
Beginning of paper
Rawls theory of justice revolves around the adaptation of two
fundamental principles of justice which would, in turn, guarantee a just and
morally acceptable society. The first principle guarantees the right of each
person to have the most extensive basic liberty compatible with the liberty of
othe ....
Middle of paper
.... resemblance to the moral point of view.
"Moral conclusions can be reached without abandoning the prudential
standpoint of positing, a moral outlook merely by pursuing one's own prudential
reasoning under certain procedural bargaining and knowledge constraints."
Rawls proposes that the most reasonable principles of justice for a
society are those that individuals would themselves agree to behind the "veil of
ignorance", in circumstances in which each is represented as a moral person,
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