Rawls Veil Of Ignorance

It is also important to cite Rawls’s conception of the ‘Veil of Ignorance’, which is part of Rawls earlier work. As Ben Rogers point out whilst analysing Rawls’s work, ‘The veil of ignorance is meant to ensure that our views on justice are not distorted by our own interests’ (…). In the case of the Iranian Revolution, it would have been valued if the Islamists would have adopted the veil of ignorance when writing the constitution. As Rawls’s points out, by taking away the elements that makes up a person’s identity, such as ethnicity and religion, the veil of ignorance can lead to principles that ‘specify the kinds of social cooperation that can be entered into and the forms of government that can be established’ (…). Despite the argument of