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Veil of ignorance
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Veil of ignorance
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October 01. 2011
Hello Stefan,
could you please explain me the following statement:
"Potential conflict in constitutional interests is not eliminated, but the veil of ignorance transforms potential interpersonal conflicts into intrapersonal ones" (Vanberg,1994, p. 170).
What I understood so far:
The veil of ignorance/uncertainty is a hypothetical construction.If constitution-makers act as if they were behind a veil of uncertainty, society has the security that the rules of a consitution will not systematically privilege any specific group of the society.
So what is the story with inter- and intrapersersonal conflicts? I don't get this distinction.
Thanks so much, great tutorial by the way.
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