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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Baedeker -- Part One. In depen dence -- 2 Truth in Morals -- 3 External Skepticism -- 4 Morals and Causes -- 5 Internal Skepticism -- Part Two. Interpretation -- 6 Moral Responsibility -- 7 Interpretation in General -- 8 Conceptual Interpretation -- Part Three. Ethics -- 9 Dignity -- 10 Free Will and Responsibility -- Part Four. Morality -- 11 From Dignity to Morality -- 12 Aid -- 13 Harm -- 14 Obligations -- Part Five. Politics -- 15 Political Rights and Concepts -- 16 Equality -- 17 Liberty -- 18 Democracy -- 19 Law -- Epilogue: Dignity Indivisible -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Law and Morals -- 1 Pragmatism and Law -- 2 In Praise of Theory -- 3 Darwin's New Bulldog -- 4 Moral Pluralism -- 5 Originalism and Fidelity -- 6 Hart's Postscript and the Point of Political Philosophy -- 7 Thirty Years On -- 8 The Concepts of Law -- 9 Rawls and the Law -- Notes -- Sources -- Index

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state - Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilitarian and legal-positivist approaches to jurisprudence. Developing his own theory of adjudication, he applies this to controversial public issues, from civil disobedience to positive discrimination. Elegantly written and

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Common Ground -- Chapter 2. Terrorism and Human Rights -- Chapter 3. Religion and Dignity -- Chapter 4. Taxes and Legitimacy -- Chapter 5. Is Democracy Possible? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

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 realized? Dworkin, one the world's leading legal and political philosophers, identifies and defends core p.