Justice for Hedgehogs

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. He is the 2007 recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize. Klappentext In his most comprehensive work to date, Dworkin argues that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are all different aspects of the same large question. 'A modern philosophical classic, one of the essential works of contemporary thought' A.C. Grayling, "New York Review Of Books" Zusammenfassung The fox knows many things! the Greeks said! but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this title! the author argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is! life means! morality requires! and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question.

Auteur
Ronald Dworkin was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University.

Texte du rabat

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest.

Skepticism in all its forms philosophical, cynical, or post-modern threatens that unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied all the honorifics reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being and dictated the terms on which other bodies of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the inevitable result. We need a new revolution. We must make the world of science safe for value.