just pulling everything together

I know this wont make sense to most that read this because i am addressing an article from paths to knowledge but I have to say it...I think this book is proof that philosophy can be seductive because I feel pretty seduced by this book now that we are done.
Having said that I can get into what I thought of these last few chapters. When basically pulling his argument together to give a big picture look at what he had been doing and fill in a few spots that had not been perfectly clear Dagger's concept of how autonomy and civic virtue work really sank home. The notion that to respect right is not merely to assert them but to have a desire to protect other people's rights and treat other people in a way where you are not using them or being used by them in a way that changes the balance away from the equality of all persons really allowed for a clearer understanding for my of what it is that civic virtue is doing when he had been explaining that a community with civic virtue helps foster autonomy. It was also helpful to clarify that autonomy is not something we are trying to maximize or even the only right that matters in his system. Instead his system tries to raise everyone to a certain threshold of autonomy and that we address autonomy because it is the building block of other equally valuable things in society.