POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Totalitarianism, Equal Opportunity, Thought Experiment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Wolfgang Koerner

Document Summary

Political thought: rawls wants to show: there are principles of justice that all rational people can agree too. We can determine through a thought experiment, a hypothetical condition called the original position: imagine you set up a state but no one knew where they would be in life, in that state. You are a blank slate of a human being, this is called the veil of ignorance. The two principles: we want as much liberty, as it is distributed, social and economic equalities are two be arranged so that they are one of two things. (1) bene t the least advantage (2) equal opportunity. If allowing people to become more rich, means more poor people than so be it.