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JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS
JUSTICE FOR
HEDGEHOGS
THE BELKNAP PRESSOFHARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
For Reni
Preface ix r Baedeker I PART ONEIndependence2 Truth in Morals 23 External Skepticism 4o Morals and Causes 6p 5 Internal Skepticism 88 PART TWOInterpretation6 Moral Responsibility 99 7 Interpretation in General 123 8 Conceptual Interpretation 157 PART THREEEthics9 Dignity '9' io Free Will and Responsibility 219
PART FOURMoralityii From Dignity to Morality 255 12 Aid 271 13 Harm 285 14 Obligations 300 PART FIVEPolitics15 Political Rights and Concepts 327 Equality 35' 17 Liberty 364 18 Democracy 379 1g Law 400 Epilogue: Dignity Indivisible 417 Notes 425 Index 489
This is not a book about what other people think: it is meant as a standalone argument. It would have been longer and less readable if packed with
responses, distinctions, and anticipated objections. But, as an anonymous
reader for the Harvard University Press pointed out, it would weaken the argument not to notice the great variety of prominent theories in the several
fields the book touches. I compromised by discussing the work of contemporary philosophers in several extended endnotes spread throughout the book.
I hope this strategy makes it easier for readers to decide which parts of my
argument they wish to locate in the contemporary professional literature.
Nevertheless, it proved necessary to anticipate objections more fully in some
parts of the text-particularly in Chapter 3, which examines rival positions
in greater detail. Readers who are already persuaded that moral skepticism
is itself a substantive moral position will not need to linger over those arguments. Chapter i provides a road map of the entire argument and, at the risk
of repetition, I have included several interim summaries in the text.I have been fortunate in attracting critics in the past, and I hope this book
will be criticized as powerfully as past books have been. I propose to capitalize
on technology by establishing a Web page for my responses and corrections, www.justiceforhedgehogs.net. I cannot promise to post or to respond to all
comments, but I will do my best to make additions and corrections that seem
called for.
Acknowledging all the help I have had in writing this book is close to the
hardest part of writing it. Three anonymous readers for the Press made a host of
valuable suggestions. The Boston University Law School sponsored a conference of some thirty papers, organ ............
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