Thomas Hurka is Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Perfectionism, Principles: Short Essays on Ethics, Virtue, Vice, and Value, and The Best Things in Life, as well as of many articles in moral and political philosophy. For two years he wrote a philosophy column for the Globe and Mail newspaper.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; I. Methodology ; 1 Normative Ethics: Back to the Future ; II. Comparing and Combining Goods ; 2 Value and Population Size ; 3 The Well-Rounded Life ; 4 Monism, Pluralism, and Rational Regret ; 5 How Great a Good is Virtue? ; 6 Two Kinds of Organic Unity ; 7 Asymmetries in Value ; III. Individual Goods ; 8 Why Value Autonomy? ; 9 Desert: Holistic and Individualistic ; 10 Virtuous Act, Virtuous Disposition ; 11 Games and the Good ; IV. Principles of Right ; 12 Rights and Capital Punishment ; 13 Two Kinds of Satisficing ; 14 The Justification of National Partiality ; 15 Proportionality in the Morality of War

One should hope and expect that intriguing puzzles emerge from a collection of essays like this. Perhaps the most important moral to be drawn from Drawing Morals is that Hurka's structural method and the insights he explores will continue to engender further philosophizing.