The Family and the Political Self

Laurence Thomas is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

• Introduction; 1. Uniquely valued; 2. Reconceptualizing the moral self; 3. The family as a model for society; 4. From family to E Pluribus Unum; Epilogue: the liberty between Plato and modern liberalism.

"Laurence Thomas's new book, The Family and the Political Self is a highly original, thought provoking, and movingly written meditation on the proposition that human beings are capable of and very frequently demonstrate that they actually have considerable altruism." - Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill