TY - JOUR
AU - Dworkin, Ronald
AB - BOOK SYMPOSIUM Justice for Hedgehogs By RONALD DWORKIN Harvard University Press, 2011. xiv þ 506 pp. £24.95 RONALD DWORKIN 1. From the Prologue This book defends a large and old philosophical thesis: the unity of value. It is not a plea for animal rights or for punishing greedy fund managers. Its title refers to a line by an ancient Greek poet, Archilochus, that Isaiah Berlin made famous for us. The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Value is one big thing. The truth about living well and being good and what is wonderful is not only coherent but mutually supporting: what we think about any one of these must stand up, even- tually, to any argument we find compelling about the rest. I try to illus- trate the unity of at least ethical and moral values: I describe a theory of what living well is like and what, if we want to live well, we must do for, and not do to, other people. That idea – that ethical and moral values depend on one another – is a creed; it proposes a way to live. But it is also a large and complex 
TI - Summary
JF - Analysis
DO - 10.1093/analys/ans144
DA - 2013-01-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/summary-jKPvb6SATV
SP - 105
EP - 107
VL - 73
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -