Ethical foundations of the left

Kenneth MacKendrick kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Tue Jul 24 09:20:19 PDT 2001


At 05:49 PM 7/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>As much as I hate to go over my posting limit for the day, here's an
>interesting piece by Ronald Dworkin some of you might enjoy:
>http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/dworkin/papers/objectivity.html
>
>-- Luke

Thanks for the notice, this reconfirms my determination not to read Law's Empire. Dworkin should know better. He fails to grasp the way in which questions of objectivity can be rethought not in a Kantian transcendental schema, but through pragmatics, which takes into consideration the propositional content of a expression, the normative claims that it raises, the intelligibility of the speaker (and capacity of the hearer) and the sincerity of the participants.

ken



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