Board members need to rethink what they are doing in those rooms, and here individual directors’ guiding principle should be the “veil of ignorance” proposed by the political philosopher John Rawls in his 1971 treatise A Theory of Justice. Rawls proposed the veil of ignorance as a way to derive principles of social justice to which anyone who did not know in advance their identity and position in society would consent.
董事会成员需要反思他们在董事会做了什么，在这方面，就个人而言，董事应该以政治哲学家约翰·罗尔斯（John Rawls）在其1971年的专著《正义论》（A Theory of Justice）中所提出的“无知之幕”为指导原则。罗尔斯的无知之幕是作为社会正义原则提出的，任何事先不知道自己在社会中的身份和地位的人都会同意这一原则。