For whatever reason I like thought experiments, probably because I was homeschooled. Anyway, I recently came across a thought experiment where you imagine making a new society. It really gets your thinking motor running. It’s called The Veil of Ignorance and I first heard about it on The Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris. The originator of the idea was an American philosopher named John Rawls.
The basic idea is you get to make a society from scratch, but you don’t know who you’ll be in that society. Pretty exciting, huh? Let’s explore that more since so far this isn’t long enough to be considered an article by itself. Continue reading “The Veil of Ignorance Thought Experiment”
