Title
Justice for Hedgehogs / Ronald Dworkin.
ISBN
9780674059337
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (528 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674059337 doi
Call Number
BD435 .D85 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
170/.44
Summary
In Dworkin's master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin's understanding of the relationship-between ethics, morality, and political morality-is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that "dignity" is the essential core of living well and that a satisfactory account of dignity would, in turn, point to two principles. The first states that it is objectively important that each person's life go well; and the second that each person has a special responsibility for identifying what counts as success in his or her own life. Dworkin believes that values cohere and that in order to defend that coherence he has to take up a broad variety of philosophical issues that are not normally treated in one book. He discusses the metaphysics of value, the character of truth, the nature of interpretation, the conditions of agreement and disagreement, the phenomenon of moral responsibility and the problem of free will as well as more substantive issues of ethical, moral and legal theory.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1 Baedeker
Part One. In depen dence
2 Truth in Morals
3 External Skepticism
4 Morals and Causes
5 Internal Skepticism
Part Two. Interpretation
6 Moral Responsibility
7 Interpretation in General
8 Conceptual Interpretation
Part Three. Ethics
9 Dignity
10 Free Will and Responsibility
Part Four. Morality
11 From Dignity to Morality
12 Aid
13 Harm
14 Obligations
Part Five. Politics
15 Political Rights and Concepts
16 Equality
17 Liberty
18 Democracy
19 Law
Epilogue: Dignity Indivisible
Notes
Index
