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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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Abortion and the veil of ignorance: a response to Minehan [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 In a recent JME paper, Matthew John Minehan applies John Rawls’ veil of ignorance against Judith Thomson’s famous violinist argument for the permissibility of abortion. Minehan asks readers to ‘imagine that one morning you are back to back in bed with another person. One of you is conscious and the other unconscious. You do not know which one you are’.
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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations [PDF]
Rationality and Society, 2015 Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment or (2) they condition their compliance on others’ compliance. While earlier field studies could hardly disentangle both
Diekmann, Andreas +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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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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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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Pluralism and Identity Politics: A Look into the Indian Centre-State Scenario
Dera Natung Government College Research Journal, 2017 Constructed ideas of identity have been posing a threat to humanity in the pluralist notion of India. Shared concept of class, clan and culture get politicized by a small group of people, often driven by self-interest, and turmoil the democratic set up ...
Nandini Basistha
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