John Rawls was far and away the most influential political philosopher of the last century. For one limited measure, try searching for “John Rawls” on Google scholar. You’ll get about 16,000 hits since 2019. He was not only widely discussed but very well respected, and he acquired many followers. Even people outside philosophy have heard of him. So he clearly had some skill in a very high degree.
If you want to argue for maximin using decision theory when you don't know the probabilities, I think the standard approach would be to appeal to Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989). A more modern version is Kochov
If you want to argue for maximin using decision theory when you don't know the probabilities, I think the standard approach would be to appeal to Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989). A more modern version is Kochov
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HH_zngDGUazCKEQ_bBOYOejbF15sRWNv/view
I'm not convinced by these arguments, but just mentioning in fairness.