Armed with a philosophical education, our protagonist is now in a better position to think about the challenges she confronts
This excerpt highlights how being educated in philosophy can help an individual transform their thinking and analyze more effectively the issues with society and what makes them a problem.
The deep underlying idea is that if we have to choose a social and political arrangement without knowing the position that we may occupy in society, we will choose fair principles to govern our social and political institutions. My teacher had our class re-enact a scenario very much like this one in class. We discussed the principles that would govern our imagined society before we picked our fate out of a hat. Until that point in my young life, I had never thought about justice in that way
This is a very interesting way to think about justice. The author introduces this method to imagine a fair society with no bias. The reason this works so well is because not knowing what ur position in society will be, allows you to genuinely try ur best to make society as fair and enjoyable as possible for every individual
Every day you wake up early to get the children ready for school and commute an hour or more to university. After class, you pick up your children from school. If you’re lucky, you can drop them off with a relative while you go to work
The author opens the text using imagery to generate empathy within the reader in order to hook them and generate curiosity. Since many philosophical questions stem from societies problems, using an imaginary individuals situation is a great way to set the stage.