First Things

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by Hadley Arkes

Princeton University Press

Due/Published October 1990, 480 pages, paper

ISBN 069102247x

An Inquiry into the first principles of morals and justice: This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the 'moral sciences': that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be otherwise.