Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Learning from Aristotle and Aquinas -- Chapter 1 Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 2 Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 3 Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas -- Chapter 4 Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Part II Ethics -- Chapter 5 Moral dilemmas -- DILEMMAS AND DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT DILEMMAS -- THE APPEAL TO FACTS -- DILEMMAS, PRACTICAL RATIONALITY, AND INCONSISTENCY -- THOMISM AND MORAL DILEMMAS -- DILEMMAS AND THEORIES -- Chapter 6 Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill? -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 7 Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant? -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Part III The politics of ethics -- Chapter 8 Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995 -- 1953 FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 1995 -- 1968 FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 1995 -- 1995 -- Chapter 9 Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats -- Chapter 10 Some Enlightenment projects reconsidered -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 11 Social structures and their threats to moral agency -- THE CASE OF J -- MORAL AGENCY -- WHAT IS IT TO UNDERSTAND ONESELF AS A MORAL AGENT? -- THE STRUCTURES OF COMPARTMENTALIZATION -- ONCE MORE THE CASE OF J -- Chapter 12 Toleration and the goods of conflict -- WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD WE ASK? -- LOCKE'S PROPOSALS CONCERNING TOLERATION AND THE STATE -- THE NATURE AND VALUES OF THE CONTEMPORARY STATE -- TOLERATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY STATE -- THE EXCLUSIONS AND INTOLERANCES NECESSARY FOR RATIONAL COMMUNAL DIALOGUE -- UNSOLVED PROBLEMS -- Index.