Word: rawlsian
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...enjoy privileged access to one of the most convenient dining halls on campus, but I owe my providence to nothing more than the random output of the computer program that sorted my blocking group. I won the housing lottery, but I just as easily could have lost. Behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance, I know that I would not want to run the risk of not only being forced to live in the Quad, but also having to eat there...
...alternative to [civil society] is some model of cosmopolitan democracy,” Livesey writes in an e-mail. “The dominant version of this is a Rawlsian rights-based model of representative democracy, but I am working on a republican model organized around a more substantive version of citizenship...
...think back to that oh-so-very-not-long-ago meeting, I laugh at how innocent I was behind the Rawlsian “veil of ignorance” when it came to Harvard. And what I find is that it is almost impossible to remember what that was like...
...Dartboard has come up with a solution that every Harvard liberal will love: Put interhouse restrictions to a Rawlsian vote. Until late March, next year’s first-years will inhabit Harvard behind a veil of ignorance, unaware of either their endowments as privileged Adamsians or their impending exile to the Quad. Balancing overcrowding fears with the threat of being in the crowd that gets unceremoniously thrown out the door, these first-years should vote yea or nay, whether dining hall segregation should be a relic of the past...
...Rawlsian plan. So named by my suitemate who transferred from the Quad and feels that no one, under the "veil of ignorance," would choose to live there. Random or not, he argues, the system is at base unjust if it makes some people live unfairly disadvantaged for three years...