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Arguments for Liberty: Rawlsianism

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The Reasonableness of Inequality

The reasonableness i issue is pretty vexed. We're not building people can appeal to the ordinary facts of economics and psychology. The choosers behind the veil of ignorance are meant to model a reasonable and rational choice. And it's a reasonable choice because it's fair and reciprocal. So the idea is that the reasonable goes beyond mere, sort of a practical rationality. It allows us to say that certain kinds of rational bargains would be morally and appropriate, or morally problematic.

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