Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. The author of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic Legacy, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received the Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Académie Française for his book Les pratiques du moi.
Part I. Reason and Reasons: 1. History and truth
2. Back to Kant? No way
3. Attending to reasons
Part II. The Moral Point of View: 4. John Rawls and moral philosophy
5. The autonomy of morality
Part III. Political Principles: 6. The moral basis of political liberalism
7. The meanings of political freedom
8. Public reason
Part IV. Truth and Chance: 9. Nietzsche and the will to truth
10. The idea of a life plan.
