Many students who have taken a Philosophy or Ethics course will recognize this framework as John Rawl's veil of ignorance. (whartonmagazine.com)
It's an obvious instance, to which all who operated behind a veil of ignorance would readily consent, of exercising one's right to justice as fairness. (firstthings.com)
Or, in the case of John Rawls, they are behind a pre-social «veil of ignorance» making deals with one another according to their calculated self - interest and thus bringing «society,» with its key idea of justice, into being. (firstthings.com)