• Introduction


• 1: Christopher Morris, University of Maryland: The Trouble with Justice


• 2: Mathias Risse, Harvard University: Neitzche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of Higher Men


• 3: Richard Joyce, Australia National University: Morality, Schmorality


• 4: David Schmitz, University of Arizona: Because It's Right


• 5: Thomas Nagel, New York University: The Value of Inviolability


• 6: Samuel Scheffler, Berkeley College: Potential Congruence


• 7: Stephen Finlay, University of Southern California: Too Much Morality


• 8: Terence Irwin, Cornell University: Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation


• 9: Ralph Wedgwood, Oxford University: Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature


• 10: Julia Annas, University of Arizona: Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism


• 11: W.D. Falk, formerly UNC Chapel Hill: Morality, Self, and Others


• 12: Paul Bloomfield, University of Connecticut: Why It's Bad to be Bad


• 13: Joel Kupperman, University of Connecticut: Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue


• 14: Michael Stocker, Syracuse University: Shame and Guilt: Self Interest and Morality


• Biblography

The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy. For Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Aristotle, Hume, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche, it lay at the heart of moral theory. But little of the contemporary work has been published in book format. Bloomfield's edited volume will be the first such book devoted to morality and self-interest, presenting new, commissioned articles on this subject by some of the top philosophers working today.