VEIL OF IGNORANCE
DINESH Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this episode, Dinesh applies the philosopher John Rawls' famous concept of a "veil of ignorance" to an area that Rawls never wrote about, namely, abortion. Dinesh asks whether Biden's intellectual and moral feebleness will provoke a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. A prominent UCLA professor calls it quits, and Dinesh explores the larger implications for higher education. Dinesh reveals why Americans of earlier generations were a lot smarter than Americans today.
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| 0:10.5 | I'm coming up. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going to apply the philosopher John Rawls' famous concept of a veil of ignorance to |
| 0:17.2 | an area that Rawls never wrote about, namely abortion. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm going to ask whether Biden's intellectual and moral feebleness is going to provoke a |
| 0:26.5 | Chinese invasion of Taiwan. |
| 0:28.5 | A prominent UCLA professor called his acquits and I'm going to explore the implications for |
| 0:32.9 | higher education. |
| 0:34.7 | And I'm going to reveal why Americans of earlier generations were a lot smarter than |
| 0:38.9 | Americans today. |
| 0:40.4 | This is the Dineshtus' issue. |
| 0:42.6 | America needs this voice. |
| 1:04.8 | The philosopher John Rawls is believed to be one of the most influential philosophers |
| 1:20.0 | of the 20th century. |
| 1:21.3 | Now, there are some people who would say he was the most influential. |
| 1:25.0 | He was certainly not the greatest philosopher of the century. |
| 1:28.2 | I think you'd have to say that that was Martin Heidegger. |
| 1:32.2 | The German thinker who was at least for a time infatuated by the Nazis. |
| 1:38.6 | But nevertheless, his philosophical reputation is in the league of the great 19th century |
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