About
- 1.Values and Modernity
- 2.An Ancient Quest, a Modern Challenge
- 3.Pluralism, Religion, and Alien Cultures
- 4.Are Values Subjective?
- 5.From Experience to Worth
- 6.Hume and the Challenge of Relativism
- 7.Cultural Diversity, Human Nature, and the Social Sciences
- 8.Kant’s Appeal to Reason
- 9.Bentham, Mill, and the Appeal to Utility
- 10.Social-Contract Theories, Part I
- 11.Social-Contract Theories, Part II
- 12.Some Critiques of the Modern Project
- 13.Retrieving the Quest for Wisdom
- 14.Wisdom, Ancient and Modern
- 15.Dilemmas of Might and Right
- 16.Public and Private Morality, Part I
- 17.Public and Private Morality, Part II
- 18.Plato on the State, the Soul, and Democracy
- 19.Democracy and Its Discontents
- 20.The Parable of the Retreat
- 21.Searches in the Realm of Aspiration
- 22.Love and Glory, the Same Old Story
- 23.The Mosaic of Value
- 24.Meaning and Belief in a Pluralist Age