The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows
one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin
argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what
truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are
different aspects of the same large question. He develops original
theories on a great variety of issues very rarely considered in the
same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical
interpretation, free will, ancient moral theory, being good and
living well, liberty, equality, and law among many other topics.
What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to
any argument we find compelling about the rest. Skepticism in all
its forms-philosophical, cynical, or post-modern-threatens that
unity. The Galilean revolution once made the theological world of
value safe for science. But the new republic gradually became a new
empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of physics
into a totalitarian theory of everything. They invaded and occupied
all the honorifics-reality, truth, fact, ground, meaning,
knowledge, and being-and dictated the terms on which other bodies
of thought might aspire to them, and skepticism has been the
inevitable result. We need a new revolution. We must make the world
of science safe for value.
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