Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013)
Author of Law's Empire
About the Author
Ronald Dworkin lives in New York and in London, and has a joint appointment at New York University, where he is a professor both in the law school and the philosophy department, and at University College London
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Works by Ronald Dworkin
A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush V. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy (2002) 12 copies
Etica privada e igualitarismo politico/ Foundations of Liberal Equality (Pensamiento Contemporaneo/ Contemporary… (1990) 10 copies
Civil Disobedience 1 copy
Izbrane razprave 1 copy
Liberalism 1 copy
The Model of Rules I and II 1 copy
Justice and the good life 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Dworkin, Ronald
- Legal name
- Dworkin, Ronald Myles
- Other names
- DWORKIN,, Ronald Myles
DWORKIN, Ronald - Birthdate
- 1931-12-11
- Date of death
- 2013-02-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Education
- Harvard College (AB | 1953)
Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA)
Harvard Law School (LL.B | 1957) - Occupations
- philosopher of law
university professor - Relationships
- Hand, Learned (employer and mentor)
Quine, Willard Van Orman (teacher) - Organizations
- New York University
University College London
Yale University
University of Oxford - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1979)
Honorary Queen's Counsel
Rhodes Scholar
Balzan Prize (2012)
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (2008) (show all 10)
Jefferson Medal (2005)
Luhmann Medal (2006)
Holberg Prize (2007)
Henry M. Phillips Prize (1994)
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Religion without God by Ronald Dworkin
Dworkin was a very clear writer. Loved the style. The substance is fascinating. Makes me wish all philosophers wrote in this tone.
Ronald Dworkin seems to be pleading for the introduction of common sense into the political debate in our Country, but any immediate resolution seems far down the road. Overall, I felt this was a somewhat uninspired, boring discussion of underlying principles which could lead to reaching agreement by those on the left and those on the right, and thereby lead to a functioning democracy instead of the partisan divide we presently have in Washington D.C.
Justice for Hedgehogs has a picture of a hedgehog on it. The image is quite adorable but that is not the point that the author is trying to make. Written by Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs attempts to show that morality is not something one is capable of making compromises on while still being upstanding. The idea for the title is from a quote made famous by Isaiah Berlin. Foxes know a lot of things while hedgehogs know one big thing. The author argues that being ethical requires you to have a central tenet that you follow.
There isn't really much more to say without making this an essay so I won't go into specifics. The book was really enjoyable, 5 out of 5.… (more)
There isn't really much more to say without making this an essay so I won't go into specifics. The book was really enjoyable, 5 out of 5.… (more)
I could not follow his tortured sentence structure. I found it very difficult to track his thought processes from one point to the next.
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