ABSTRACT
Libertarians are a minority. According to Pew Research, as of 2014, about 11 percent of Americans both identified as libertarian and knew what the term meant. There are key insights in libertarianism that argue in favor of a robust tolerance of a variety of disagreeing perspectives. Political-philosophy is thus meant to provide the tools to manage this disagreement. A standard way of resolving moral disagreements has been using veil of ignorance-style arguments. In Rawls' formulation, parties behind the veil of ignorance do not know anything about themselves or their social position, including what generation they are, what race or sex they are, what their natural endowments are, or what their economic prospects are. One of the great virtues of the classical liberal tradition is its sensitivity to the deep epistemological challenges that face large societies. Just as central planners are going to fail in virtue of imposing their impoverished understanding on a complex world.
