Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One - Introduction -- HOW TO REACH A JUST SOCIETY? -- A JUST SOCIETY -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- NOTES -- Chapter Two - Becoming Moral Agents: On the Personal Worldview Imperative -- THE PERSONAL WORLDVIEW IMPERATIVE -- ON THE ETHICAL NEUTRALITY OF THE PWI -- INAUTHENTIC WORLDVIEWS -- WORLDVIEWS AND THE PROBLEM OF JUSTIFICATION -- WORLDVIEWS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE -- WORLDVIEWS IMPERVIOUS TO CRITICISM -- A QUESTION OF CIRCULARITY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Three - A Feminist Personal Worldview Imperative -- BOYLAN, KANT, AND BLUM: WHAT SHOULD WE DO AND WHY? -- A FEMINIST PWI AND THE ETHICS OF CARE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Four - Justification in Ethics: Desiring to Be Good and Ethical Commendation -- ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION, PRACTICAL REASONING, AND ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING -- ETHICAL THEORIES AND PERSONAL WORLDVIEWS -- THE UNDERSTANDING, JUSTIFICATION AND REVISION OF PERSONAL WORLDVIEWS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Five - Justification in Ethics -- MORAL AND EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION -- MODEL FOR MORAL JUSTIFICATION -- APPLYING THE WORTH-PRICE IDEAL IN PRACTICE -- JUSTIFICATION IN CLASSIC MORAL SYSTEMS -- REASON'S ROLE IN MORAL JUSTIFICATION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Six - On the Possibility of a Hierarchy of Moral Goods -- A HIERARCHY OF GOODS -- MORAL AND OTHER IMPERATIVES -- PROFESSIONAL IMPERATIVES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Seven - Michael Boylan on Religion and Ethics: An Appreciative Theological Assessment -- RELIGION, ETHICS, THE PERSONAL WORLDVIEW IMPERATIVE, AND THE COMMON WORLDVIEW -- BOYLAN'S UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION -- AN ASSESSMENT OF THE THEORY -- A PROPOSAL FOR A COMMENSURATE ALTERNATIVE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Chapter Eight - Extinguishing Desire: Not a Simple Plan At All -- PART ONE: THE EXTINCTION OF DESIRE AND THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT -- PART TWO: HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Nine - Diversity and the Common Body of Knowledge -- RATIONALITY AND THE COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE -- TYPES OF THE COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE -- RELATIVE INDEPENDENCE AND THE COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE -- TRUTH AND DEMOCRACY -- DIVERSITY AND SOLIDARITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Ten - On Justice -- WHAT DOES THE PUZZLE MAKER REALLY DESERVE? -- ON THE MORAL STATUS OF BASIC GOODS -- ON REGULATING INCOME DISPARITIES IN WEALTHY AND SUBSISTENT SOCIETIES -- SOME REMARKS ON BOYLAN'S CONCEPTION OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE -- ON THE APPLICABILITY OF BOYLAN'S WORLDVIEW THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Eleven - Justice in A Just Society -- WHAT IS JUSTICE? -- TYPES OF JUSTICE -- THEORIES OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE -- A PLURALISTIC THEORY OF JUSTICE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Twelve - Public Policy: Moving Toward Moral Cosmopolitanism -- DOMESTIC INJUSTICE -- JUSTICE RESTRICTED -- TOWARD AMORAL COSMOPOLITANISM -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- Chapter Thirteen - Justice and Global Health -- BOYLAN'S PLURALISTIC THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE -- THE CONVERGENCE STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL HEALTH OBLIGATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Fourteen - Ethics, Metaethics, Political Theory, and Policy: A Reply to My Colleagues -- METHODOLOGY -- PART ONE: THE PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY WORLDVIEW IMPERATIVES, JUSTIFICATION, THE TABLE OF EMBEDDEDNESS, RELIGION, AND ART -- VITAL EQUIVOCATION (1998) -- PART TWO: JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, AND SOCIAL POLICY -- OVERALL CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- Definitions -- Index -- About the Contributors.