Talk:Ronald Dworkin

message: According to the caption under one of the photographs of Dworkin, "Dworkin drew inspiration for 'hard cases' from his months of angonising constapation." I went ahead and deleted the text from the picture. If someone wants to replace it with something, that would be cool, but make sure to at least check your spelling. -Banyan (talk) 22:37, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: What is his personal life, such sponse or children? Does he have one or any?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sp0 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life, such as spouse 

message: "Dworkin argues that moral principles that people hold dear are often wrong, even to the extent that certain crimes are acceptable if your principles are skewed enough. In order to discover and apply these principles, courts interpret the legal data (legislation, cases etc) with a view to articulating an interpretation which best explains and justifies past legal practice. "
I can't see any connection whatsoever between sentences 1 & 2 and sentence 3 -- these seem like random thoughts on Dworkin tossed into one paragraph.
24.90.82.121 19:21, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: Would someone please explain to this Habermasian lawyer exactly how Dworkin's metaphor of the Judge as Hercules bears any resemblance whatsoever to Habermas's ideal speech situation?? --Paultopia 14:32, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dworkin and Habermas

message: Last change, by Simon Dodd, should be reverted. First, the example is Dworkin's example. Second, it's a hypothetical example. It doesn't mean to have any connection to any existing legal system. So, the change is absolutely pointless. Velho 19:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of the sacrilegious contract 

message: I'm not enitirely sure this article has a NPOV. Several statements are a bit... opinionated. WP shouldn't have opinions IMHO, Although wether or not this applies here is beyond me. Hmm. Comments? HawkerTyphoon 14:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: This is the first time I've involved myself in the Wikipedia project, so I don't know if this is the right place to post critical comments without also offering improved text, but I'll comment anyway.
The second-to-last paragraph under "The right answer thesis" seems to be lacking.  The surface comparisons between Dworkin's Hercules, Rawls's original position (OP), and Habermas's ideal speech situation are right about one thing: they are "idealized methods of arriving at somehow valid normative propositions."  But the article has two problems with which I take issue.
First, the original position is not to be used on the basis of the strategic justification offered in this article, such as a person who adheres to the outcome of the OP because she 'might be in the opposition at some point in the future.'  Rather, the OP is used because it is the reasonable (or moral) thing to do--a commitment to justice requires it.  To say that it is used for a strategic reason is misleading to the reader.  (This is related to Rawls's concepts of what is required for Overlapping Consensus, but I don't have time or know-how to make my point really clear on this matter.)  
I suggest that the further description of the veil of ignorance, if not the whole reference, should be deleted if it cannot be improved.
Second, the reader of this article gets the misleading impression that these thought experiments are like black boxes that "somehow" produce "valid normative propositions."  "Somehow," as if the process is obscure.  The Hercules model is idealized, but it is not just a groundless "leap of faith; it is what a good judge would strive to be like--a judge who follows Dworkin's procedure for finding right answers.  Similarly, Rawls's OP does not just "somehow" produce "valid normative propositions."  The somehow is central, and it should be elucidated in this article, if the article is going to contain this reference.  The OP is only valuable if it models the moral notions that reasonable people think it should model, and if it is the agreed upon way to determine principles of political justice.  
I suggest that the characterization of Hercules as a "leap of faith" should be removed or clarified.
Though I don't know enough about Dworkin and Hercules to correct these passages (and hardly know enough about Habermas's ideas to even comment), I do know enough to confidently suggest that the second-to-last paragraph of the "right answer thesis" section is off and misleading.
66.245.70.208 04:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues with The Rawls-Habermas paragraph

message: Dworkin obviously does not claim that there is one right answer for parcial (wh-) questions, but for yes-no questions. The issue is not on curves, but on the law of excluded middle. Velho 21:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About mathematics and the one right thing 

message: I've just deleted recent and some older claims the Dworkin is a Jew. Nothing shows that in the biographical sketch. In a recent interview to the New York Times, conducted and written by Adam Liptak, nothing is said about Dworkin's hypothetical Jewish origin. Liptak says only that Dworkin is "emphatically American". Velho (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dworkin's ethnicity 

message: What does it mean in the first sentence where it says that he IS Jeremy Bentham and Frank Sommer?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.188.59 (talk) 09:10, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: New York University established a special professorial position, named in honor of Frank Sommer.  The person who held that position would be given the professional title "Frank Sommer Professor of Law".  Ronald Dworkin occupied that position.24.222.2.222 (talk) 14:09, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: A blogpost by Michael Pakaluk points out that there are conflicting sources. NNDB, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Encyclopedia Britannica, and others say that he was born in Worcester, Mass. The New York Times, The Telegraph, NYU, and others that he was born in Providence, R.I. Can anyone clear this up? Opalescent Parrot (talk) 05:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Dworkin born in Rhode Island or in Massachusetts? 

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