 Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength and the like.  The Ethics of Liberty - Page xivby Murray N. Rothbard - 2002 - 308 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | David L. Norton - Philosophy - 1976 - 420 pages
...principles of their subsequent association to conform to the following self-description. "First of all, no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status; nor docs he know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence and... | |
 | Stephan K Rner - Philosophy - 1980 - 292 pages
...heuristic assumption that no member knows ' his place in society, his class position or social status ... his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength and the like '. He assumes even ' that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good... | |
 | Liberty Fund - Markets - 1986 - 248 pages
...lead to a certain conception of justice. Among the essential features of this situation is that no-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... | |
 | Andrew Brennan - Science - 1988 - 254 pages
...version of contract thinking asks us to imagine an 'original position' described as follows: . . . no-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... | |
 | Carole Pateman, Mary Lyndon Shanley - Social Science - 1991 - 304 pages
...person in the original position includes "his place in society, his class position or social status ... his fortune in the distribution of natural assets...abilities, his intelligence and strength, and the like ... his conception of the good, the particulars of his rational plan of life, [and] even the special... | |
 | Seyla Benhabib - Philosophy - 1992 - 280 pages
...they become irrelevant. The Rawlsian self does not know his place in society, his class position or status; nor does he know his fortune in the distribution...abilities, his intelligence and strength, and the like. Nor, again, does anyone know his conception of the good, the particulars of his rational plan of life,... | |
 | Anthony J. Cascardi - History - 1992 - 332 pages
...rather than embrace, the difference that a knowledge of these differences would make. As Rawls says, "no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength... | |
 | Raymond A. Belliotti - Psychology - 1993 - 338 pages
...Harvard University Press, 1971), ii. 9. "Among the essential features of [the original position] is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength,... | |
 | Timo Airaksinen, Wojciech W. Gasparski - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 320 pages
...to lead to a certain conception of justice. Among the essential features of this situation is that no 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... | |
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