The Arc of the Moral Universe

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Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 26, Issue 2 p. 91-134 The Arc of the Moral Universe JOSHUA COHEN, JOSHUA COHEN JOSHUA COHEN is Professor of Philosophy and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is coauthor with Joel Rogers of Associations and Democracy (Verso, 1995, coeditor with Archon Fung of Constitution, Democrucy, and State Power (Edward Elgar, 1996), and editor of For Love of Country (Beacon, 1996). He is a past contributor to, and Associate Editor of, Philosophy & Public Affairs.Search for more papers by this author JOSHUA COHEN, JOSHUA COHEN JOSHUA COHEN is Professor of Philosophy and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is coauthor with Joel Rogers of Associations and Democracy (Verso, 1995, coeditor with Archon Fung of Constitution, Democrucy, and State Power (Edward Elgar, 1996), and editor of For Love of Country (Beacon, 1996). He is a past contributor to, and Associate Editor of, Philosophy & Public Affairs.Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 June 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.1997.tb00078.xCitations: 26 This essay, which will appear in Subjugation and Bondage, ed. Tommy Lott (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming), is from a larger manuscript I worked on for several years, then put aside. I wrote the first draft for a 1986 symposium on “Moral Realism” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, and presented subsequent versions to philosophy colloquia at Carnegie-Mellon University and Columbia University, the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, the Harvard Government Department's political theory colloquium, New York University Law School, the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the Bay Area Group on Philosophy and Political Economy, the Society for Ethical and Legal Philosophy, an Olin Conference on Political Economy at Stanford University, the A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and the Universidade Federal Fluminens. I am grateful to audiences at each occasion for comments and criticism. I especially wish to thank Robert Brenner, David Brink, Robert Cooter, Michael Hardimon, Paul Horwich, Frances Kamm, George Kateb, Ira Katznelson, Harvey Mansfield, Amelie Rorty, Charles Sabel, Michael Sandel, T. M. Scanlon, Samuel Scheffler, Anne-Marie Smith, Laura Stoker, and Erik Olin Wright for helpful suggestions. Karen Jacobsen, Anne Marie Smith, and Katia Vania provided invaluable research assistance. I received research support from a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, and MIT's Levitan Prize in the Humanities, generously supported by James and Ruth Levitan. 1. The Souls ofBluck Folk (New York Vintage, 1990), p. 188. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume26, Issue2April 1997Pages 91-134 RelatedInformation