Tag: Nozick

  • Utilitarianism’s Lack of Utility: Part II

    Utilitarianism’s Lack of Utility: Part II

    John Rawls’s theory of ethics begins with an experiment he calls the veil of ignorance. The veil attempts to justify the principle “that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality as defining the fundamental terms of their association” (Rawls, 10) [1]. In this experiment,…