ABSTRACT

This concluding chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. It draws attention to some of the implications of the author's work. The book has focuses on two competing ways of understanding the Aristotelian claim that 'justice', though sometimes used to refer to moral rightness in general, also has a narrower sense that refers to a part of moral rightness. The first way understands narrowness to be a matter of context specificity. The second understanding, in contrast, sees narrowness as a matter of singularity against a plural background. The sort of boundary drawing needed to theorize fundamental values can be performed in a rough and ready way. When a dispute over the internality of a judgment emerges either due to an imperfect understanding of a value concept or due to confusion over a term's referent, there is only one way to resolve it: conceptual analysis.