"One of Nietzsche’s most important legacies to us … is his claim that it is desirable and possible to dismantle the Pl…"

"Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the “transcendence” which stands at the center of traditional accounts—the exist…"

"The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share."

"The notion of being an “enlightened” person does not reduce simply to that of being a person who has highly developed…"

"The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with “Reason” …"

"The pure normative standpoint that Kant’s ethics tries to occupy, a standpoint in which we consider only the normativ…"

"The point of one of Rawls’] main constructions—the introduction of the “veil of ignorance”—is precisely to exclude fr…"

"The actual effect of Rawls’s theory is to undercut theoretically any straightforward appeal to egalitarianism. Egalit…"

"In its origin, liberalism had no ambition to be universal either in the sense of claiming to be valid for everyone an…"

"Either there is or there is not a mechanism for enforcing human rights. If there is not, it would seem that calling t…"