Every attempt to apply equality in everyday life produces paradoxes. Equality of opportunity assures inequality of result; equality of condition restricts equality of opportunity. Separate facilities make black and white schoolchildren unequal, but only separate facilities provide equality for children …
Everyone believes in rights. Everyone believes that rights should be taken seriously. But what precisely are rights, and what does it mean to take them seriously? Take the simple assertion: I have a right to do (or not to do) …
Taking Rights Seriously, by Ronald Dworkin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 293 pp. The Practice of Rights, by Richard Flathman. Cambridge, London, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 250 pp. Everyone believes in rights. Everyone believes that rights should …
