Ronald Dworkin Quotes on Knowledge
Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal and political philosopher and one of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the late twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ronald Dworkin on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:
“Hard cases have a right answer, even if reasonable judges disagree.”
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“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?”
Taking Rights Seriously (1978), p. 31 -
“Pornography: An Exchange" , response to Catharine MacKinnon , New York Review of Books 41(5), (3 March 1994)”
She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent -
“Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”
Pornography: An Exchange", response to Catharine MacKinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994. -
“Pornography: An Exchange", response to Catharine MacKinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.”
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.