Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin

Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin

Language: English

Pages: 438

ISBN: 0631197664

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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.

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to remedy the unjust international distribution of resources. After all, granting language rights to Ethiopian immigrants does nothing for the far greater number of people condemned to abject poverty in Ethiopia. For an interesting discussion of the idea of a “societal” or (what they call) “pervasive” culture, with its requirements for a certain level of institutional completeness and intergenerational continuity, see Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz, “National Self-Determination,” Journal of

being an engine of distributive justice. It shows that equality of resources should give way to equality of opportunity for welfare, because identical quantities of resources are capable of satisfying people to different degrees, since people are made differently, both naturally and socially, not only (a fact to which Dworkin is sensitive) in their capacities to produce, but also (the fact to which he is insensitive) in their capacities to obtain fulfillment. Relative to his 1981 auction

measures are taken to alleviate inequalities in wealth that are not traceable to choice. The above discussion informs real world practice with respect to wealth distribution in a variety of ways, including the endorsement of progressive taxation and state-run health insurance. The personality/circumstance distinction drawn by Dworkin in equality of resources circumscribes personal and collective responsibility and is, he tells us, the backbone of our wider ethics and morality. Its prominence in

great importance. This difficulty can be avoided, Dworkin suggests, by adopting a slightly different hypothetical insurance scheme, in which insurance takers know both their tastes and their talents, but not the latter’s economic rent, that is, how highly the services of these talents happen to be priced on the market.28 From behind this somewhat thinner veil of ignorance, everyone chooses the height of the earning power that they want to have guaranteed to themselves. If the earning power

distribution of the good. On this view, the Pareto norm (or more exactly, the Pareto family of norms) is an element of fair distribution. The root idea here is that we should deny someone a claim to a benefit only if granting the claim imposes a cost on someone else, where a “cost” is interpreted very broadly, so that giving the benefit to you imposes costs on me if the benefit could have been given to me instead. But if a sausage is available to you, but would spoil if we try to give it to

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