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- Title: Boundaries and Allegiances (Boundaries and Allegiances: Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought) (Book Review)
- Author : Ethics & International Affairs
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 278 KB
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Samuel Scheffler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 221 pp., $29.95 cloth. Boundaries and Allegiances: Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought is a collection of eleven of Samuel Scheffler's previously published (and slightly revised) essays. Although the essays cover a broad range of topics, including the relationship between Rawls and utilitarianism, the role of the concept of desert in liberal theory, and the work of Bernard Williams, this review will focus on Scheffler's treatment of a question that animates most of the essays in this volume--namely, "how, at a time when people's lives are structured by social arrangements and institutions of ever-increasing size, complexity, and scope, we can best conceive of the responsibilities of individual agents and the normative significance of individual commitments and allegiances" (p. 2). Scheffler, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, has been one of the most talented and productive moral philosophers in the analytic tradition for the past two decades, and the essays in this volume are characteristically thoughtful, subtle, and well written.
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