


A better version is found in a later essay of 1982 entitled “The Basic Liberties and Their Priority.”3 This essay attempts to answer what I came to regard as Hart’s most important objections. It must be said, however, that the account in the revised text, although considerably improved, is still not fully satisfactory. Beginning with §11, I made revisions to clear up several of the difficulties Hart noted. Leaving this concern aside, one of the most serious weaknesses was in the account of liberty, the defects of which were pointed out by H. These I shall now try to indicate, although I am afraid much of what I say will not be intelligible without some prior knowledge of the text. In the revisions I made in 1975 I removed certain weaknesses in the original edition.Revised Edition (1999) Preface for the Revised Edition
