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The “Original Position” as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism
Religions, 2019 John Rawls’ well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the “original position” is put into play by the veil of ignorance.
Joseph Rivera
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Distributive Theories of Justice: From Utilitarianism and Back [PDF]
Антиномии, 2021 For half a century, the problem of justice has been one of the most controversial and debated in Western academic science. For the Anglo-American tradition, the starting point for controversy about distributive justice can be considered 1971, when the
Dmitry V. Balashov
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Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
Journal of Philosophy, 2002 J. Rawls and R. Dworkin have each used veils of ignorance to justify equality (Rawls) or to compute what equality entails (Dworkin). J. Harsanyi has also derived a distributive ethic from a veil of ignorance argument, which, although not egalitarian, is believed by Harsanyi to be not excessively inegalitarian.
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Ambiguity Aversion behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2021 The veil of ignorance argument was used by John C. Harsanyi to defend Utilitarianism and by John Rawls to defend the absolute priority of the worst off.
Stefánsson, H. Orri
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Optimal Inequality Behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Taxation behind the veil of ignorance
Social Choice and Welfare, 2021 We explore the design of impartial tax schemes in a simple setup where agents’ incomes are completely determined by their inborn talents. Building on Harsanyi’s veil-of-ignorance approach, we conceptualize an impartial observer who chooses a tax scheme without knowing her own preferences and the distribution of talents, and whose vNM preferences behind
Biung-Ghi Ju, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
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The Veil of Ignorance Process Tracing (VoiPT) Methodology [PDF]
, 2021 A central problem in all qualitative and multimethod research is the risk of selection bias and resulting “cherry- picking” in process tracing. What confidence do we have that the researcher is not producing just-so stories, accounts that are biased in favor of the author’s causal story over valid theoretical competitors?
Copestake, James +2 more
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"Bezstronny obserwator" Adama Smitha a neutralne kryteria oceny w etyce społecznej
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2016 Ethical theory for Adam Smith is first of all the basic mechanism of social controls. Going out from decisions of the matter of the moral feelings, which the ‘sympathy’states the foundation; it tries to work out the neutral criteria of ...
Cezary Kalita
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Journal of Public and Professional Sociology, 2012 While safely ensconced on an American campus, it is easy to forget that people in different parts of the world may see things differently. My encounter with Romanian high school students was a reminder of this.
Melvyn L Fein
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Launching a Legal Regime: Applying Constitutional Law to Space Law
Advanced Space Law, 2023 This Article analyzes the applicability of constitutional law to rules governing outer-space behavior. By analyzing the uses of text, history, and practice in the interpretation of the United States Constitution and space agreements, I conclude that ...
Yan Ethan
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