PHIL 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Thought Experiment, Welfare Capitalism
6 Feb 2018
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Justice as fairness: rawls conceptualizes justice as "the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality as defining the fundamental terms of their association. " If we think about justice according to the concept of social contract, and a situation where people engaged in this contract choose a given society, we can understand what justice is. The original position: problem with figuring out principles of justice, or what constitutes fair, because we occupy different social positions. Veil of ignorance: thought experiment that enables to think according to the first position: "a purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
