1 Henceforth, all page references to the book will appear in parentheses in the text.

2 I will not comment on the discussion of Taylor since I found it too vague to be useful.

3 A remark just a few pages later suggests otherwise: “If it is commonplace that the most obvious moral failings of human societies—cruelty, injustice, exploitation, oppression—are effected through systems of social difference, then to mount effective moral criticism of these arrangements requires finding out precisely how relations of trust and responsibility can be manipulated and deformed into something ugly and dangerous, in just this way” (p. 211).