PHL 101 Chapter 7: PHL 101 - Hobbes
5 Jan 2021
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The difference principle the agreement with other representatives. Decide for yourself whether it is a good starting point for a social contract. That people have different interests, beliefs, etc. Society is under conditions of moderate scarcity. Race, gender, age, wealth, skills, religion, etc. A war of all against all in which life is nasty, brutish and short. It is selected on moral grounds and justified intuitively. For the social contract to be fair the original position of each of the participants must be. Imagine that each of the parties to the social contract has a representative that works out. These representatives are ideal (no goals separate from being your representative) The representatives know that they are representing people. They don"t know any particulars about the person they represent. They operate behind a veil of ignorance. So what sort of principles will representatives operating behind the veil of ignorance.
