
Raymond Geuss on Real Politics
Philosophy Bites
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Rawls and Nozick's Theology of Rights
Two of the allegedly great late 20th century political philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick just got it completely wrong. Both thinkers in their own way began by abstracting from the actual conditions of society, he says. "What seems to be basically wrong is the idea that you can have a veil of ignorance" He adds: 'We often don't know what is relevant'
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