PHIL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Contractualism, John Rawls, Peaceful Coexistence
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You don"t arm: they take over peaceful co-existence. The raional self interested choice is to arm. But if you both arm and do the raional thing, you"ll both end up worse of then if you both don"t arm. You liter: lazy and ugly lazy and prety. You don"t liter: work and ugly work and prety. I am to (x=liter) when (y=it"s convenient) in order to (z=beter enjoy your day) Diagnosis: not taking other people"s wishes into consideraion. Fix: replace consistent willing of universal laws with consensual agreement to. Diagnosis: allows you to take advantage of what you know about your situaion. Fix: require agreement behind the veil of ignorance. K2-it"s everyone"s interest to have certain basic goods: liberies, protecions, You should act in accordance with the rules that would be a greed to by agents who are (1) raional (2) self-interested and (3) behind the veil of ignorance. Whats a raional agents aitude towards risk: loteries.
