Metz, Thaddeus, BA (Iowa), MA PhD (Cornell); tmetz@uj.ac.za. This work has been improved as a result of feedback received at the Ubuntu Project Conference in Honour of Justice Albie Sachs, held at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria; a Blue Skies Seminar in Political Thought hosted by the Department of Politics, University of Johannesburg; a gathering of the Wits Centre for Ethics Justice Working Group; and a colloquium hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. The article has also benefited from the written input of Patrick Lenta and of anonymous referees for this Journal. Humanities Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Brazil