## Metadata - Author: [[David Miller]] - Full Title: Justice for Earthlings - Category: #books ## Highlights - Why, one might ask, should anyone wish to deny that the concepts and principles of political philosophy are fact-dependent? Perhaps life is made easier for the political philosopher if she does not have to worry at all about empirical questions while formulating her basic principles, but that alone does not seem sufficient justification. A more compelling reason is that by allowing empirical claims to influence the way these principles are formulated, we run the risk that our political philosophy becomes too conservative, adapting itself to aspects of human existence that may be contingent, and therefore potentially alterable. ([Location 394](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ADP779Y&location=394))