Ethical foundations of the left

[Ken Hanly]

I havent finished it but the article seems quite readable and a welcome
change from the contradictory relativist claptrap passed of as thinking
about ethics these days. However Dworkin says:

A positive moral judgment ascribes a moral predicate to an act or person or
event; a negative one denies such an ascription.

I wonder why he does not include legal persons such as corporations? Do acts
include corporate acts I wonder? Certainly ordinary discourse involves moral
judgments re corporations, teams, and the like all the time. Is there some
conceptual problem here?

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Benjamin Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Ethical foundations of the left


> 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
>