AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
Rawls, Capitalism & Justice
Past Present Future
The Appeal of the Original Position
The social contract is a way of thinking about the world to ask yourself how would I like the society in which I live to be structured. It's basic principles, it's basic guidelines. The appeal is that it's such an intuitive idea and strikes people as a natural way to think about what a fair society might look like. Daniel Altschuler: Rawls actually explicitly said that there was sort of nothing - he was very modest but famously modest.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode