ABSTRACT This paper explores the extent to which our assessment of how we ought to live, including how we ought to live under the guidance of law, is arrived at by engaging with our predicament in all its detail, rather than by abstracting ourselves from our it, that is, by reflection on the concrete rather than the general. The piece brings together case-law (the chestnut of Riggs v Palmer), the Dworkinian view of law-making, and meta-ethics to suggest the ways in which our local endeavours have the capacity to expand the moral universe, creating possibilities for goodness without precedent.

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理想与日常

摘要 本文探讨了我们对我们应该如何生活的评估，包括我们应该如何在法律的指导下生活，是通过详细了解我们的困境，而不是通过将我们自己从困境中抽象出来来实现的。 ，也就是说，通过对具体而不是一般的反思。这篇文章将判例法（里格斯诉帕尔默的栗子）、德沃金式的立法观和元伦理学结合起来，提出了我们当地的努力有能力扩大道德世界的方式，为善良创造可能性没有先例。