This important collection of essays opens with a pivotal essay on the implications of the moral duties which arise out of concern for the well-being of others. The first part of the book concentrates on the consequences of two central aspects of well-being: the importance on membership in groups--the role of belonging--and the active character of well-being--that it largely consists in successful activities.

• I: The Ethics of Well-Being: Political Implications


• Duties of Well-Being


• Rights and Individual Well-Being


• Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence


• Liberalism, Scepticism, and Democracy


• National Self-Determination (with A. Margalit)


• Freedom of Expression and Personal Identification


• Multiculturalism: A Liberal Perspective


• II: Between Law and Morality


• The Problem about the Nature of Law


• The Inner Logic of the Law


• Legal Rights


• Authority, Law, and Morality


• The Relevance of Coherence


• On the Autonomy of Legal Reasoning


• The Obligation to Obey: Revision and Tradition


• Government by Consent


• The Politics of the Rule of Law