ABSTRACT

To have a justified social and political philosophy, one must attend carefully to the views of others, and particularly to the objections they might raise to one’s own views. By attending to the philosophical views of others, and especially to the objections they might raise to one’s own view, one can come to see the need to modify one’s own view, or to develop it in new ways, or at least how to present it in a better fashion so as to be better understood.