Julian Nida-Rümelin is professor emeritus of philosophy and political theory at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany. He is member of the  Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was state minister for culture and media in the first government of Gerhard Schröder.   

1. Introduction and Overview

2. Practical Philosophy

3. Structural Rationality

4. Structural Agency

5. The Phenomenology of Structural Rationality

6. Morality and Rationality

7. The Efficacy of Reasons

8. Metaphysical Aspects