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• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• The Quest for Justification
• Ideas and Concepts in Political Life
• “Theory and Practice”
• The Plan of the Book
• Part I Politics and Critical Morality
• 1 Forms of Political Criticism
• Exposing the Pipes
• Defusing and Mobilizing Arguments
• Subjective and Objective
• Defusing Skepticism, Mobilizing Criticism
• Pacifica and Atlantis
• Positive and Critical Morality
• Critical Morality as Introspective
• Critical Morality as Historical
• 2 The Common Good
• The Idea of a “Common Good”
• Why Politics Excludes Slavery
• The Common Good in Politics
• Public and Private
• Down with Liberal Democracy
• Some Replies
• Perfectionism
• 3 Classical Utilitarianism
• The Utility Principle
• Indirect Utilitarianism
• Expanding the Circle
• Perfectionism and Hedonism
• Rational Ends and Rational Constraints
• 4 Utilitarian Critical Morality
• Sympathy and Commensurability
• Preference-Satisfaction
• Desirable Consciousness
• Utilitarian Common Goods
• The Experience Machine
• The Separateness of Persons
• 5 The Social Contract
• Peace in Our Time
• Politics as Conflict Resolution
• The Hobbesian Contract
• The Rational Will
• Empirical Issues
• The Lockean Critique
• Problems with Locke’s Account
• Doubts about Natural Rights
• 6 Contractualism 2.0
• The General Will
• The Theory of Rawls
• Reflective Equilibrium
• Intuitions and Their Status
• Part II Topics in Political Philosophy
• 7 Property and Wealth
• Property, Equality, Merit
• Distributive Justice?
• Hayek and Spontaneous Order
• Liberty and Patterns
• The Entitlement Theory
• Assessing the Libertarian Challenge
• Misfortune and Injustice
• Blame-Responsibility and Remedy-Responsibility
• Justice and Responsibility
• The Famine-Relief Argument
• Possible Replies Rejected
• Dividing Responsibilities
• 8 Economic Justice
• Some Initial Leads
• Rawls on Social Justice
• The Difference Principle
• The Desert Objection
• The Common Assets Objection
• The Relevance of Coercion
• The Sufficiency Objection
• Global Distributive Justice?
• Particularism and Cosmopolitanism
• Coercion and Autonomy
• Problems with the Coercion Argument
• 9 The Significance of Borders
• International Migration
• Authority: General Features
• Territory
• Membership
• The Claims of Migrants
• Exclusion from Membership
• Exclusion from Territory
• 10 Responsibility for the Environment
• The Place of Political Philosophy
• The Prudential Dilemma
• The Place of Justice
• Climate Change Skepticism
• Answering the Skeptics
• How Bad Will It Be?
• 11 War
• Three Views
• War and Justice
• The Just War Criteria
• In bello and ad bellum
• Just Cause
• The Claims of Peace
• Killing in Self-Defense
• Killing Combatants
• Realism
• The “War System”
• An Uncertain Future
• 12 Liberty
• Berlin’s Wall
• An Ideological Distinction?
• Two Families of Ideas
• The Modalities of Positive Freedom
• Forms of Unfreedom: Coercion
• Domination
• Oppression
• Sweatshops
• 13 Democratic Rule
• What Is Democracy?
• The Complexity of Democratic Forms
• Democratic Ideals
• The Positive Arguments
• The Common Good Justification
• The Argument from Self-Government
• The Argument from Egalitarian Justice
• The Defensive Arguments
• The Conflict Resolution Argument
• Safeguarding Liberty against Power
• The Common Good Justification
• The Argument from Self-Government
• The Argument from Egalitarian Justice
• The Conflict Resolution Argument
• Safeguarding Liberty against Power
• Part III Changing the World
• 14 Critical Enlightenment, Ideology, and Materialism
• What Is Critical Enlightenment?
• How to Change the World
• Marx’s Doubts: Ideology and Materialism
• Moralizing Criticism
• The Blueprint Model
• Change and Reconciliation
• 15 Ideal Theory, Race, and Reparation
• Liberalism: A Red Herring
• Ideal and Non-Ideal
• Mills on the “Racial Contract”
• Racist Expression
• Racist Assumptions
• “Whiteness”
• Complicity, Complacency, and Solidarity
• Invisibility and Distraction
• Justice, Affirmative Action, and Reparations
• References
• Index