For Monday May 21

Let's start Monday's class with a discussion of education and religious liberty and justice from a Rawlisian consensus from behind the "veil of ignorance." Scroll down to next post.

We will break up into small groups and, writing from a blank slate, try to reach a consensus as to how to structure the role of government in the new society we are creating.

You won't know what your situation will be like in this new society.

You might be a committed secularist or Christian or Jew or Buddhist or atheist or some other religious or non-religious believer.

You may be rich or poor or somewhere in between.

Whatever your beliefs, you love your children and want them to be educated about what is true and good and beautiful. And you also understand that we do not agree about many of these truths, or indeed, even about the nature of reason and rationality.
 
 Consider, for example, brilliant scholars such as Profs. Ackerman and Johnson and their very different worldviews. If you and they had to design an educational system from "behind the veil of ignorance" how would you reach a consensus about how to design it?