Table of Contents

A Note on the Essays; Introduction; Part I. Liberalism: 1. Reasonable Pluralism and the Domain of the Political (1999); 2. On Justifying the Moral Rights of the Moderns (2007); 3. Recognized Rights as Devices of Public Reason (2009); 4. The Moral Foundations of Liberal Neutrality (2009); 5. Coercion, Ownership, and the Redistributive State: Justificatory Liberalism's Classical Tilt (2010); Part II. Diverse Public Reason: 6. A Tale of Two Sets: Public Reason in Equilibrium (2011); 7. Self-Organizing Moral Systems: Beyond Social Contract Theory (2018); 8. Political Philosophy as the Study of Complex Normative Systems (2018).

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This volume offers the most important essays of the leading liberal theorist Gerald Gaus.

About the Author

Gerald Gaus was James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy, and Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science, at the University of Arizona. His books include The Order of Public Reason (Cambridge 2011), The Tyranny of the Ideal (2016), and The Open Society and Its Complexities (2021). Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His books include Liberal Politics and Public Faith (2014), Must Politics Be War? (2019), and Trust in a Polarized Age (2020).