Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin

by Editor: Justine Burley (National University of Singapore)

• ISBN13: 9781405142878
• ISBN10: 1405142871
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Dworkin and His Critics provides an in-depth, analytical discussion of Ronald Dworkin's ethical, legal and political philosophical writings, and it includes substantial replies from Dworkin himself. Includes substantial replies by Ronald Dworkin, a comprehensive bibliography of his work, and suggestions for further reading. Contributors include Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, Frances Kamm, Will Kymlicka, Philippe van Parijs, Eric Rakowski, Joseph Raz and Jeremy Waldron. Makes an important contribution to many on-going debates over abortion, euthanasia, the rule of law, distributive justice, group rights, political obligation, and genetics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Expensive Taste Rides Again

Talent, Slavery and Envy

Equality of Resources Versus Undominated Diversity

Liberty, Equality, Envy, and Abstraction

Cracked Foundations of Liberal Equality

A Puzzle about Ethics, Justice and the Sacred

Dworkin on Freedom and Culture

Justice In Health Care: Can Dworkin Justify Universal Access?

Equality of Resources and Procreative Justice

Morality and the 'New Genetics'

Autonomy, Beneficence and the Permanently Demented

Ronald Dworkin's Views on Abortion and Assisted Suicide

Reverence for Life and the Limits of State Power

Associative Obligations and the State

Speaking with One Voice: On Dworkinian Integrity and Coherence

Integrity: Justice in Workclothes

The Rule of Law as a Theater of Debate

Ronald Dworkin Replies

Major Works By and About Ronald Dworkin

Index

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