
Ronald Dworkin on the Unity of Value
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Is There a Right Answer?
The only way to defend a claim that I've got the right answer is for me to make an argument. And of course that argument, every bit of it will be rejected by people who disagree with the conclusion. If I say there's no right answer to a moral question, I'm contradicting myself because I'm trying to offer one. You can't say that because nobody can prove he's right to the satisfaction of everybody else, it follows that no one is right. That's a logical fallacy. It doesn't mean that because I have that conviction, I'm right. In the end, it's a question of conviction.
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