The Veil Of Ignorance
From the BBC Radio 4 series about life's big questions - www.bbc.co.uk/historyofideas
What’s your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you’re rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts; if you’re poor you’re likely to be more supportive of a system that redistributes wealth.
John Rawls argued it might be more just to construct this blueprint from behind a 'veil of ignorance'. Find out how in this 2 minute animation.
Narrated by Stephen Fry. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.
This project is from the BBC in partnership with The Open University, the animations were created by Cognitive.
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These animations are incredible, and witty and clever at the same time. This installment references at least 3 classic board games: Monopoly, Guess Who and Mousetrap - the last one very subtly.
The most clear explanation of veil of ignorance.
Wow
Thank you very much. it was easy and fair.
Outstanding video! Thank you so much for this! I can now do my mini-essay homework.
a society, to my mind, is the place where people should accept each other regardless their race, religion, sect or color. Also, it's where we should feel breezes of liberty, justice and human rights. Sorry we miss these more in the developing countries
AMAZING!!! Thank you so much! What an interesting concept :D
superb
The change we want to see in this world starts inside of us, it is born in our gut and then flows from our heart. We all come into this stain free.
Clever!!!
The difficulty is to create enough incentive for entrepreneurs to build businesses while at the same time providing an adequate safety net for those who cannot help themselves. That incentive is what creates the businesses that create jobs for everyone in between. If the system doesn't provide that incentive, then everyone's prospects are diminished. If too many people at the bottom are gaming the system, there is less capital to create jobs. If it was easy, everyone would be happy.
This question becomes so much more complex when you introduce religion into the mix.
My society:
The world could do with a veil of ignorance.
It is a nice video in 90 seconds, and therefore has to be limited. However, we should also consider that the veil of ignorance goes beyond this. We do not even know whether being "black, white or mixed" or a potential preference for "Beethoven, Shakira or Coltrane" might likely lead to positive or negative outcomes. We have no idea about consequences to human characteristics. Moreover, natural inequality is a given, and acceptable to the extent to which it creates the framework of equality of opportunity.
I agree with this theory.
I was like "I know his voice from somewhere it feels nostalgic" it appears he is the narrator for little big planet game on the play station 3
Rawls didn't just apply this to human beings as this video graphically displays, he was an ethical vegetarian. Look from behind the veil of ignorance at a factory farm or a slaughterhouse. An intilectually honest person would take only a few seconds to arrive at Rawls' conclusion.
This theory is logically contradictory and incoherent. Kudos to John Rawls for spilling a sophisticated jargon.
One of my favorite ideologies!! The point being... true social justice describes a society where if everyone had no idea what socioeconomic class they would be born into and have to live in, leaving it all up to chance, every single person would perfer a society where the "worse off" had access to basic needs, lived a comfortable life, and had a fair shot of success like everyone else. Simply put, that is social justice- not the "socialist" agenda the media and current political climate has warped it into.