The Veil of Ignorance: A Suggested Principle to Cure Injustice
The Veil of Ignorance: A Suggested Principle to Cure Injustice Within the Idea of a Well-ordered State, that is, a State Effectively Regulated By a Chosen few Intellectual Elite’s for the Attainment and Maintenance of Peace and Order
By: Conrad M.
In this contemporary political world, justice is being put to a pedestal by intellectuals for debate and in fact numerous thought about it are being thrown from all corners of the world. The catch in this particular principle which makes the world of the intellectuals’ up-side-down is that justice is being considered as a fundamental principle for a state to attain and maintain peace and order. The most fundamental idea in this conception of justice is the idea of state as a fair system of social cooperation over time from one generation to the next. This central idea is worked out in conjunction with two companion fundamental ideas. These are: the idea of citizens as free and equal persons and the idea of a well-ordered state, that is, a state effectively regulated by a public conception of justice. (Farrelly, 2004)
The paper will aim to suggest a certain principle that is to be imposed on the second conjunction as mentioned in the book entitled Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader by Farrelly, 2004, to mention, the idea of a well-ordered state, that is, a state effectively regulated by a public conception of justice, and will further provide a justification on the said suggestion. The suggestion for the said conjunction is going to be the application of the principle of the veil of ignorance to the subjects of the state and that is to qualify, the citizenry, in which the said principle is going to be imposed by a certain group of intellectual elite, as to say, those individuals who were born with remarkable gifts as somewhat being touched by the gods possessing an all seeing eye and superb intellect capable enough to see the real world and is capable of managing the world by placing it on their two
By: Conrad M.
In this contemporary political world, justice is being put to a pedestal by intellectuals for debate and in fact numerous thought about it are being thrown from all corners of the world. The catch in this particular principle which makes the world of the intellectuals’ up-side-down is that justice is being considered as a fundamental principle for a state to attain and maintain peace and order. The most fundamental idea in this conception of justice is the idea of state as a fair system of social cooperation over time from one generation to the next. This central idea is worked out in conjunction with two companion fundamental ideas. These are: the idea of citizens as free and equal persons and the idea of a well-ordered state, that is, a state effectively regulated by a public conception of justice. (Farrelly, 2004)
The paper will aim to suggest a certain principle that is to be imposed on the second conjunction as mentioned in the book entitled Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader by Farrelly, 2004, to mention, the idea of a well-ordered state, that is, a state effectively regulated by a public conception of justice, and will further provide a justification on the said suggestion. The suggestion for the said conjunction is going to be the application of the principle of the veil of ignorance to the subjects of the state and that is to qualify, the citizenry, in which the said principle is going to be imposed by a certain group of intellectual elite, as to say, those individuals who were born with remarkable gifts as somewhat being touched by the gods possessing an all seeing eye and superb intellect capable enough to see the real world and is capable of managing the world by placing it on their two
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