PHIL 4230 Final: notes phil 1010 all!
6 Apr 2015
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Theoretical background: social contract theorists like hobbes, and locke and. Rawls calls his approach justice as fairness, which aims the principles of justice. For rawls the ultimate basis of society rests on a set of tacit agreements among. He invites us to imagine an initial situation of political negotiation that he calls the original position. It is to be understood as a purely hypothetical situation, it includes: Veil of ignorance: theoretical device to ensure impartiality and fairness. *(needs to be fair agreement that people know this means that the participants in the situation don"t know the particulars in their own position in society at the state of negotiating its terms . Wouldn"t know if they are male or female, black or white, rich or poor) fair and not with a. * (any rational person is presumed to want: shelter & food) dictate: unless an unequal distribution of any, or all ,of these values is to everyone"s advantage.
