Rawls: Original Position and Veil of Ignorance Explained

In order to reach a just and fair society Rawls conducted a thought experiment where people all gathered at the original position behind a veil of ignorance. If we all followed this thought experiment we would all create the most just and fair society. But what exactly is this original position and veil of ignorance? Watch as this is explained.

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[TheCouchPotatoWatchesTV]

Your videos are so helpful! You take these really dense texts and difficult to understand concepts and break them down into really easily understandable and succinct points and present it as a lovely debate between friends and I love it!

[evilsoap]

love your videos... my take: the veil is a nice mental exercise but seems implausible. How could you even decide what is just when there is no knowledge of the self? seems oxymoronic. The "justice" concept derives from human social experience, without a determined self it would be empty.

[joev]

Rawls was a great thinker, no doubt. However, I question the assumption that under the veil of ignorance, people would find "universal" truths and rights and could agree unanimously on anything.
Take the equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity debate, for example. It seems some people are by nature (i.e. from birth) die hard adherents to the survival of the fittest principle, while others are unable to accept that society can be just when big differences in quality of life exists among its members. The former prefer raw capitalism, the latter demand and dream of communism. How could those two groups ever agree what kind of economy to implement? And this is just one of a myriad of parameters would have to agree on.
In the end, even under the veil of ignorance, people would have to compromise, leaving many dissatisfied.

[ahp]

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[arsh...]

This was the most easy and productive way, that explained rawl's original position

[jbezteman]

Now where are we going to find this veil of ignorance. 😮

[rihno]

they guy on the left sounds like he has a sore throat

[matejplachta]

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[DanNorton]

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