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
