【In Memoriam: Ronald Dworkin】
下周四 (3/17) 謝世民老師要導讀德沃金生前最後鉅著《刺蝟的正義》，為此我們特別轉貼三年前紐約大學紀念德沃金的網頁，它非常扼要地介紹了德沃金的生平與思想。（詳細一點的介紹，特別推薦 https://issuu.com/nyulaw/docs/2005/15，有圖）
下周四 (3/17) 謝世民老師要導讀德沃金生前最後鉅著《刺蝟的正義》，為此我們特別轉貼三年前紐約大學紀念德沃金的網頁，它非常扼要地介紹了德沃金的生平與思想。（詳細一點的介紹，特別推薦 https://issuu.com/nyulaw/docs/2005/15，有圖）
經驗顯示，有些朋友點閱英文網頁的意願不高。但我們還是強烈推薦點進去看看。就算看不懂英文，也有很多德沃金的珍貴照片可看──你看過德沃金玩風帆，陪小孩踢球嗎?
(裡面有個2010的專訪，德沃金說有人會誤以為《Jusitce for Hedgehogs》是一本有關動物權的書.....)
Ronald Dworkin
Born: December 11, 1931, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died: February 14, 2013, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Betsy Ross (m. 1958–2000)
A cartoon from Roz Chast. See more from this week's issue:http://nyr.kr/1M5UYIs
不可知論者的禱告。
The Age of Doubt
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries. Nietzsche proclaimed that God was Dead in 1882, Hegel in fact beat him to it apprising his Berlin students of Gods demise as early as 1827. By the end of the 19th century echoes of the death of God can be heard everywhere: in the revolutionary politics of Lenin, in the poetry of Tennyson and the psychoanalysis of Freud. The march of Science seemed to challenge the authority of the Bible at every turn and by the twentieth century almost all the great writers, artists and intellectuals had abandoned the certainty of their belief in God.So who or what was responsible for this sudden spread of religious doubt? If God could truly be said to be dead then who fired the first shot? Have we educated ourselves out of Christ only to embrace the bleaker creed of Mamon? Is God a human construct or did God construct us? Is there an argument from design, or was the Big Bang morally pointless, without what we could call a mind at all? Did Darwin and natural selection rebut the idea of a divine purpose? With A N Wilson, novelist, biographer, journalist and author of Gods Funeral; Victoria Glendinning, author, journalist and biographer of Anthony Trollope and Jonathan Swift.
Anthony Trollope, by the way, had a sister named Cecilia. She wrote a novel about a man tormented by Anglican angst. It's discussed in this episode of In Our Time about 300 years of religious doubt - Tennyson, Freud, Hegel, Nietzsche, Darwin, Lenin; they're all here. Your experts are A.N. Wilson and Victoria Glendinning. Fascinating - and entertaining - stuff.
2015.5.19 梁先生贈，以後再讀。
沒有神的宗教
Religion without God
- 作者： 羅納德．德沃金
- 原文作者：Ronald Dworkin
- 譯者：梁永安
- 出版社：立緒
- 出版日期：2015/