Boundaries and Allegiances

• 1. Responsibility, Reactive Attitudes, and Liberalism in Philosophy and Politics ; 2. Individual Responsibility in a Global Age ; 3. Families, Nations, and Strangers ; 4. Liberalism, Nationalism, and Egalitarianism ; 5. The Conflict between Justice and Responsibility ; 6. Relationships and Responsibilities ; 7. Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism ; 8. The Appeal of Political Liberalism ; 9. Rawls and Utilitarianism ; 10. Justice and Desert in Liberal Theory ; 11. Morality Through Thick and Thin: A Critical Notice of 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'

It is difficult to speak too highly about this admirable book of essays. Each essay taken by itself is an exemplary exercise in moral and political philosophy - exemplary especially because of the way in which Scheffler connects deep philosophical questions to social and political changes that condition the answers we give to them. Taken together they display continuity, but almost no repetition. A theme explored in one essay is taken up and developed from a slightly different angle in another, broadening the reader's grasp of the issue... These essays display a remarkable combination of philosophical acuity, moral seriousness and political realism, and deserve to be read closely and repeatedly for the light they shed on our contemporary moral and political predicament.