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.
EAN: 9780674046719
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Autori: DWORKIN R.M.
Rok vydania: 2011
Jazyk: Anglický