For 10 points, name this American author of Political Liberalism, who posited a thought experiment featuring the "veil of ignorance" to argue for a fair society in A Theory of Justice.
This thinker used an analogy to the ordering of words in a dictionary to describe the "lexical" priority of some rules over others. This man's reliance on maximin allocation was attacked by John Harsanyi. He bracketed off the "background culture" and took a "wide view" of the title phenomenon in The Idea of Public Reason Revisited. This man wrote that people with differing conceptions of the good should achieve "overlapping consensus," and changed his views through a process of reflective equilibrium. He wrote that all inequalities should benefit the worst-off, according to his difference principle. For 10 points, name this American author of Political Liberalism, who posited a thought experiment featuring the "veil of ignorance" to argue for a fair society in A Theory of Justice.
This thinker used an analogy to the ordering of words in a dictionary to describe the "lexical" priority of some rules over others.
John Bordley Rawls