" I find it most helpful when thinking about the veil of ignorance and the original position as a social theory version of the golden rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "
Yes! You say/summarize it so well. (And Rabbi Hillel's "Do not do to others, what you do not want done to you.")
" I find it most helpful when thinking about the veil of ignorance and the original position as a social theory version of the golden rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "
Yes! You say/summarize it so well. (And Rabbi Hillel's "Do not do to others, what you do not want done to you.")
I think the Constitution, with its revolutionary message of radical equality, looks toward translating these into our secular civic life. That government preserve the ethical message of religious doctrine without retaining the irrationality of religious belief. That we leave the absolutes and authoritarianism of religion for the provisional truths of science and the contextual truths of history. Instead of creed we have agreed frameworks.
The Founders essentially introduced 'the scientific method' to our political, legislative, and judicial processes. We the people transfer power, amend the constitution, devise and revise the laws, and set and overturn legal precedent by coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence. Nothing is *sacred*.
" I find it most helpful when thinking about the veil of ignorance and the original position as a social theory version of the golden rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "
Yes! You say/summarize it so well. (And Rabbi Hillel's "Do not do to others, what you do not want done to you.")
I think the Constitution, with its revolutionary message of radical equality, looks toward translating these into our secular civic life. That government preserve the ethical message of religious doctrine without retaining the irrationality of religious belief. That we leave the absolutes and authoritarianism of religion for the provisional truths of science and the contextual truths of history. Instead of creed we have agreed frameworks.
The Founders essentially introduced 'the scientific method' to our political, legislative, and judicial processes. We the people transfer power, amend the constitution, devise and revise the laws, and set and overturn legal precedent by coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence. Nothing is *sacred*.