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7. Hobbs view of humanity was the state of nature.

It is different from Rawl's Veil of Ignorance. I thin the point of the of the Veil of Ignorance as a thought experiment is to show just how difficult it would be to reform society along just lines when you have such inequalities already present. Here is short except from the article below:

"No one knows his place in society, his class position or social status; nor does he know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence and strength, and the like". The idea then, is to render moot those personal considerations that are morally irrelevant to the justice or injustice of principles meant to allocate the benefits of social cooperation."

Here are a few articles on Rawl's theories if you want to read them:

Justice as Fairness, which is Rawl's concept of justice. It's also the title of his most accessible book on his philosophy I suggest you check it out. It's very interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_as_fairness

Veil of Ignorance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

Original Position. This is Rawl's answer to "State of Nature" proposed by Hobbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position