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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributions
• Introduction
• Judith Wagner Decew and Ian Shapiro
• Part I: Foundations of the Debate on Theory and Practice
• 1. The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle’s Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World
• Norma Thompson
• 2. Kant on Theory and Practice
• Jeffrie G. Murphy
• Part II: The Value of Pure Theory
• 3. High Theory, Low Theory, and the Demands of Morality
• Frances M. Kamm
• 4. Psychological Realism and Moral Theory
• David B. Wong
• 5. What Plato Would Allow
• Jeremy Waldron
• Part III: Arguments for the Priority of Practice
• 6. “Lawyer for Humanity:” Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought
• Martha C. Nussbaum
• 7. The Theoretical Importance of Practice
• Susan J. Brison
• 8. Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative Energy
• Henry Shue
• Part IV: Theory and Practice in the Law
• 9. On Legal Theory and Legal Practice
• Cass R. Sunstein
• 10. Religious Resistance to the Kantian Sovereign
• Stephen L. Carter
• 11. On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness
• Frank I. Michelman
• Part V: The Public Implications of Theory
• 12. Public Practical Reason: Political Practice
• Gerald J. Postema
• 13. “Truth” or Consequences
• Kent Greenawalt
• Part VI: Practitioners as Theorists
• 14. The End of Morality? Theory, Practice, and the “Realistic Outlook” of Karl Marx
• John Kane
• 15. Heidegger and Political Philosophy: The Theory of His Practice
• Steven B. Smith
• 16. A Performer of Political Thought: Vaclav Havel on Freedom and Responsibility
• Jean Bethke Elshtain
• Index