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The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work the author 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. The author feels we need a new revolution, and that we must make the world of science safe for value.

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Droit et morale --- Droit et éthique --- Injustice --- Jurisprudence --- Justice --- Justice (morale) --- Law and ethics --- Recht en ethiek --- Recht en moraal --- Rechtswetenschap --- Rechtvaardigheid --- Science juridique --- Judicial process --- Law --- Law and ethics. --- Jurisprudence. --- Philosophy. --- Interpretation and construction. --- Analogy (Law) --- Construction and interpretation (Law) --- Construction and interpretation of statutes --- Interpretation and construction (Law) --- Statutes --- Statutory construction --- Judicial discretion --- Legal certainty --- Ethics and law --- Law and morals --- Morals and law --- Conduct of life --- Common good --- Fairness --- Decision making, Judicial --- Judicial behavior --- Judicial decision making --- Judges --- Procedure (Law) --- Philosophy --- Interpretation and construction --- Construction --- Psychological aspects --- Judicial process - Philosophy. --- Law - Interpretation and construction. --- Justice.

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Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political culture, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of achieving social justice as for the emerging threats of terrorism. Can the hope for change be realized? Dworkin, one the world’s leading legal and political philosophers, identifies and defends core principles of personal and political morality that all citizens can share. He shows that recognizing such shared principles can make substantial political argument possible and help replace contempt with mutual respect. Only then can the full promise of democracy be realized in America and elsewhere. Dworkin lays out two core principles that citizens should share: first, that each human life is intrinsically and equally valuable and, second, that each person has an inalienable personal responsibility for identifying and realizing value in his or her own life. He then shows what fidelity to these principles would mean for human rights, the place of religion in public life, economic justice, and the character and value of democracy. Dworkin argues that liberal conclusions flow most naturally from these principles. Properly understood, they collide with the ambitions of religious conservatives, contemporary American tax and social policy, and much of the War on Terror. But his more basic aim is to convince Americans of all political stripes — as well as citizens of other nations with similar cultures — that they can and must defend their own convictions through their own interpretations of these shared values.

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Qu’est-ce que la loi ? À quoi sert-elle ? Comment les juges devraient-ils trancher des affaires nouvelles lorsque les lois et les décisions antérieures n’apportent aucune réponse claire ? Les juges inventent-ils de nouvelles lois dans de telles affaires, ou existe-t-il une loi supérieure dans laquelle ils découvrent la bonne réponse ? Tout le monde doit-il toujours obéir à la loi ? Sinon, quand un citoyen est-il moralement libre de désobéir ? Un philosophe de renom entre dans le débat autour de ces questions. Clairement et avec force, Ronald Dworkin s’oppose à la théorie de la « règle » du droit anglo-américain – le positivisme juridique et l’utilitarisme économique – et affirme que les individus ont des droits légaux au-delà de ceux explicitement énoncés et qu’ils ont des droits politiques et moraux contre l’État qui sont prioritaires sur le bien-être de la majorité.

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