Volume 33, Number 12 · July 17, 1986
Who Can Tell Right from Wrong?
By H.L.A. Hart
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
by Bernard Williams
Harvard University Press, 230 pp., $7.95 (paper)
This is a powerful, original, and deeply interesting work and many will find it a disturbing one. For it is calculated to unsettle more radically than has been done before the belief, cherished for so long and by so many, that philosophy can furnish or discover rational foundations for ethical thought, or can at least provide some acceptable systematic theory that could determine how, in thinking ethically, we should think if we are to think correctly.
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