the broadest possible sense

Posner seems to be on to something when he complains about what he calls “academic moralists”: the writings of the folk he characterizes in this manner don’t seem likely to have much influence (at least not directly). But I also agree with Dworkin when he suggests that many people want an “inspiring” and “justifying” […]

I for one will be taking a look at Posner’s blog, but given his argument in The problematics of moral and legal theory, one wonders why one should bother. After all, there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between his ethical theorizing and the ethical theorizing of the nasty “academic […]