Ronald Dworkin

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Edinburgh University Press, 1997 - Law - 264 pages

The second edition of Stephen Guest's important study of this seminal thinker. Fully updated and with substantial additional material, this is a lucid and comprehensive introduction and critical assessment of Dworkin's prolific contributions to legal and political philosophy.

Contents

A preliminary sketch
1
The idea of interpretation
19
1
37
Integrity and community
60
The plain fact view of law
87
Objectivity in law and morality
110
Hard cases I
136
Hard cases II
160
Treating people as equals
182
Equality of what?
209
The basis of liberalism
235
Bibliography of Ronald Dworkin
254
Index
260
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About the author (1997)

Stephen Guest is Professor of Legal Philosophy at University College London.

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