Rawls' View Of Ignorance

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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,
endowed with the basic moral powers. What this position supports is that while
each person has different ends and goals, different backgrounds and talents,
each ought to have a fair chance to develop his or her talents and to pursue
those goals - fair equality for opportunity. It is not a race or contest where
the talented or gifted prevail, it should be complete cooperation among all so
that there may be reasonable life for all.
What the "veil of ignorance" brings out is that we can accept
utilitarianism as a public conception of justice only if we are prepared to let
someone be subject to conditions we would not be prepared to subject ourselves.
However, it is not the responsibility of my actions to ...

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