Submitted by Quar, Aug 16, 2008 12:59

1) "Let justice triumph, even if the world perishes by it" was not Kant's dictum. Though he agreed with the sentiment, it is actually a Latin phase: "fiat justicia, pereat mundus" and was the motto of Ferdinand I--Holy Roman emperor. Somehow I have a feeling that the author, a conservative thinker, would have generally approved of Ferdinand. 2) Schaefer attacks Nozick because his conception of a just society is morally libertarian. Yet he provides NO argument as to why "moral libertarianism" is problematic. He simply accepts that laws banning drug use and prostitution are just on their face. This is only so if you hold a dogmatic, and (dare I say it) abstract view of right and wrong--a view that takes no account of human nature. Schaefer commits the same errors he charges to Rawls and Nozick. Too much abstaction.

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