Original Position - SEP
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- :stub:
- authors
- Freeman, Samuel
- url
- https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/original-position/
The SEP discussion of "Rawls' social contract account of justice". Discusses the veil of ignorance.
This concept can be thought of as a game-theoretic solution to discovering what the ethical thing to do ina context is. Two major questions can be asked in response to this idea:
why is it the right one? What makes this a good characterisation of "morality"?
does it work? is it the sort of thought experiment that breaks down in practice?
Brought up in the context of people to critique as a jumping off point for an attempt at a partial answer to question 2: "in many contexts, no." Source of T's joke title for the impossibility theorem I wanted to derive: Unveiling the Veil of Ignorance, or yet another reason why the veil of ingorance is full of holes. Revisit this note if we ever do a reread of Tarnas.