His premise was relating to the creation of a society where the person doing the work of designating what all was needed to make a society run correctly was going to be a member of said society and would not know what place he would take in that society.
The idea being that it is the only way to insure an equitable system ends up in place.
I hope that made enough sense.
Thank you, you nailed it in one!
The idea sounds like the veil of ignorance.
The “veil of ignorance”, along with the original position, is a method of determining the morality of a certain issue (e.g., slavery) based upon the following thought experiment: parties to the original position know nothing about their particular abilities, tastes, and position within the social order of society. When such parties are selecting the principles for distribution of rights, positions, and resources in the society they will live in, the veil of ignorance prevents them from knowing about who they will be in that society. For example, for a proposed society in which 50% of the population is kept in slavery, it follows that on entering the new society there is a 50% likelihood that the participant would be a slave. The idea is that parties subject to the veil of ignorance will make choices based upon moral considerations, since they will not be able to make choices based on self- or class-interest.
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That person …
How do I test if I have that place in society ?
