Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and euthanasia.At the heart of Life's Dominion is Dworkin's inquest into ...

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are death and immortality? He joins a sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. Belief in God is one manifestation of this view, but not the only one.

El filósofo y jurista americano Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013) presenta en este libro, una de las obras cumbre de la teoría del derecho actual, la articulación más acabada de su pensamiento jurídico. Esta nueva edición incluye también un estudio preliminar firmado por Juan Iosa y Pablo A. Rapetti, «El imperio del desacuerdo», que contribuye a dimensionar y a reivindicar las aportaciones de Dworkin en su crítica al positivismo jurídico y su propia concepción del derecho.Vivimos según el...

What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey?A renowned philosopher enters the debate surrounding these questions. Clearly and forcefully, Ronald Dworkin argues against the “ruling” theory in Anglo-Ameri...

Las constituciones más contemporáneas declaran derechos individuales en un lenguaje bastante amplio y abstracto: "debido proceso", "igualdad ante la ley", "libertad de expresión". ¿Qué significa este lenguaje abstracto bajo las controversias políticas que dividen a la ciudadanía? ¿Cómo deberían decidir los jueces?Dworkin propone la lectura moral de la Constitución, bajo el entendimiento de que ésta invoca principios morales sobre libertad, igualdad y dignidad. Aun ...

In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living well and that a satisfactory account of dignity would, in turn, point to two principles. The ...

Un enfoque integral de la obra de un autor controvertido y original se beneficia enormemente de la comprensión de los contextos teóricos y sociales donde surgió. Demuestra que una obra no solo responde a discusiones con autores del presente y del pasado, sino también a situaciones que demandan nuevos enfoques de justicia. Gracias a este libro contamos con elementos para acercarnos a dicha comprensión en el caso de Ronald Dworkin. (Thomas Nagel, Universidad de Nueva York) Durante el siglo X...

Le renard sait beaucoup de choses différentes, disaient les Grecs, mais le hérisson en sait une, et de la plus haute importance. Dans son ouvrage majeur, enfin disponible en français, le grand philosophe américain Ronald Dworkin soutient que la valeur sous toutes ses formes est une grande chose : ce qu'est la vérité, ce que la vie signifie, ce que la morale exige ou la justice requiert sont divers aspects d'une même question fondamentale. Aujourd'hui, le doute a tout envahi et menace cette...

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 ...

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution tha...

Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition offers a substantial revision of earlier texts and, most importantly, incorporates discussion of Dworkin's recent masterwork Justice for Hedgehogs.Accessibly written for a w...

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 cha...