Moral Argument Is Not Enough

Abstract

Slavery seems to us to be a paradigm of a morally wrong insti- tutionalized practice. And yet for most of its millennia-long historical exis- tence it was typi cally accepted as a natural, necessary, and inevitable feature of the social world. This widespread normative consensus was only chal- lenged toward the end of the eighteenth century. Then, within a hundred years of the emergence of radical moral criticism of slavery, the existing

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