Veil of ignorance

Whether one is leading a real or imaginary domain, all leaders need some means of maintaining authority. Some of these leaders choose a path of virtue with the goals of the commoners in mind, while others act in a Machiavellian manner out of self-interest alone. In George Owrell’s satire Animal Farm, several different leadership philosophies are presented. The main ruling philosophies depicted in Animal Farm are Mr. Jones’ neglectful ruling, Old Major’s idealistic belief in equality and liberty,…

The Journal "The Need for More Than Justice" written by Annette C. Baier essentially analyzes Carol Gilligan views on matters of women and justice. Baier also discusses many different other philosophers in her analyzation. Gilligan 's theory goes into depth on how care can be an important factor in a women 's outlook on moral issues and moral development. The very first main idea or topic that 's introduced in the journal article is the care or justice perspective. The perspective basically…

A runaway trolley will kill five people if it stays on its current path. I have the option to pull a lever and divert the trolley to an alternate track. In this case, it will only kill one person. What should I do? This is the trolley problem, a classic thought experiment whose outcome has numerous applications. For example, I may ask whether it is morally permissible to kill one person and harvest his organs to save five other people. Using the teachings of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant,…

one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does anyone know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. This ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social circumstances. Since all are similarly situated and no one is able to design principles to…

The Individual Mandate: Necessary Intervention or Unethical Overreach? Introduction: The individual mandate (requirement that all people have health insurance or pay a penalty) is a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has been the subject of considerable debate. I will be continuing this trend and analyze the individual mandate with the five step Gostin framework. This framework seeks to answer five key questions: First, is there a significant risk that the individual…

displayed success. Furthermore, women resorted to physical and threatening methods to convey their discontent with the government. According to Bayat–Phillip, “Persian mothers, wives and daughters exhibited threateningly their revolvers, tore aside their veils, and confessed their decision to kill.” Political parties created by women do not necessarily represent larger communities within Qajar Iran. As previously stated, upper class women participated in the constitutional movement. Insurgency…

Happiness is a difficult word to define. Everybody has a different perspective of happiness, yet above everything else in the world it is what most people seek. Happiness is intangible, the only way for a person to sustain happiness is by figuring out all of the factors in their personal lives that make them the happiest. Some people would say money can buy you happiness because they speculate that money could give them power, or some sort of fulfillment while others disagree. I personally…

Both of their educational backgrounds show that Blacks who have grown up in white environments tend to be exposed to more opportunities to learn. Like Frederick Douglass his Mistress Sophia Auld taught him the beginnings of how to read. He remembered his master’s words in rebuking his wife for teaching him. If he was not introduced to the alphabet, a privilege of the white man, in his time he would not have had to will to learn to read. Frederick Douglass realized first what was expected from…

To acknowledge a superior advantage is the first step to changing the world. Majority of white people seem surprised at the fact that there is still a divide between races in modern times. They’ve taken the pretentious viewpoint of claiming that they don’t ‘see race’ that they just ‘the person’ and while that might be what most activists are striving towards in modern times, all that really means is that they are benefiting from the privileges of being white. It is almost impossible to relate to…

The Council of Constance finally ended this with the installation of a single pope, but the council revealed more deep-seated issues with the Church. The Dutch humanist Erasmus mocked the corruption and abuse of power within the church and the ignorance and sloth of the clergy in In Praise of Folly and other works, but he never attacked its principles. He thought that Christianity should be a guiding philosophy instead of a system of dogmatic beliefs and practices, and paved the way for the…