Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality.
Independent Review › Vol. 5 Nbr. 4, March 2001
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality.
* Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality By Ronald Dworkin Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 505. $35.00 cloth.
With Sovereign Virtue, Ronald Dworkin finally presents his political theory in a form convenient for the general reader, stripped of the specialized arguments about jurisprudence on which he has built his reputation. The issue in Sovereign Virtue is not how judges should decide cases, but what kind of equality between individuals government should secure and maintain. For Dworkin, liberal egalitarianism strives to make the effects of personal choice dominate over those of individual luck. "When and how far is it right that individuals bear disadvantages or misfortunes of their own situations themselves, and when is it right, on the contrary, th...See the full content of this document
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