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What agents would choose in certain well-defined conditions of ignorance (in the “original position”) is, for Rawls, an important criterion for determining which conception of “justice” is normatively acceptable. __Why should we agree that choice under conditions of ignorance is a good criterion for deciding what kind of society we would wish to have?__
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
If – as this book argues – we are living through a generalised diminishing of désœuvrement – the becoming-work-like of things that weren’t work before – then one of the ironies is that it is taking place precisely alongside the dismantling of labour’s conventional locus: the profession or career.
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism
Mareile Pfannebecker; J. A. Smith
“The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when
the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things.
You have to work hard on it.
Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side.
It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the
arguments for the other side better than your opponents.
This is a great mental discipline.”
The Work Required to Have an Opinion
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