This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka.

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• I. Methodology


• 1 Normative Ethics: Back to the Future


• II. Comparing and Combining Goods


• 2 Value and Population Size


• 3 The Well-Rounded Life


• 4 Monism, Pluralism, and Rational Regret


• 5 How Great a Good is Virtue?


• 6 Two Kinds of Organic Unity


• 7 Asymmetries in Value


• III. Individual Goods


• 8 Why Value Autonomy?


• 9 Desert: Holistic and Individualistic


• 10 Virtuous Act, Virtuous Disposition


• 11 Games and the Good


• IV. Principles of Right


• 12 Rights and Capital Punishment


• 13 Two Kinds of Satisficing


• 14 The Justification of National Partiality


• 15 Proportionality in the Morality of War

Thomas Hurka is Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Perfectionism, Principles: Short Essays on Ethics, Virtue, Vice, and Value, and The Best Things in Life, as well as of many articles in moral and political philosophy. For two years he wrote a philosophy column for the Globe and Mail newspaper.