JusticeforHedgehogs

JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS For Reni Morality ii From Dignity to Morality 255 12 Aid 271 13 Harm 285 14 Obligations 300 PART FIVE Politics 15 Political Rights and Concepts 327 Equality 35' 17 Liberty 364 18 Democracy 379 1g Law 400 Epilogue: Dignity Indivisible 417 Notes 425 Index 489 This is not a book about what other people think: it is meant as a standalone argument. It would have been longer and less readable if packed with responses, distinctions, and anticipated objections. But, as an anonymous reader for the Harvard University Press pointed out, it would weaken the argument not to notice the great variety of prominent theories in the several fields the book touches. I compromised by discussing the work of contemporary philosophers in several extended endnotes spread throughout the book. I hope this strategy makes it easier for readers to decide which parts of my argument they wish to locate in the contemporary professional literature. Nevertheless, it proved necessary to anticipate objections more fully in some parts of the text-particularly......