What is Rawls's veil of ignorance?
It is a thought experiment in which people choose principles of justice without knowing who they are in society, so that the choice is impartial and fair.
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Where did the idea of natural rights come from?
Natural rights grew out of ancient natural law. Historians disagree on when the shift happened: the twelfth-century canonists, the fourteenth century, or the seventeenth.
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