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- Acknowledgments
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- I. Introduction
- Part One. The Structure and Ordering of Ends
- II. Means and Ends
- A Straw Man
- The Complexity of Ends
- The Concept of Rational Ends
- Explicit and Implicit Principles
- III. Rational Ends and Their Principles
- The Rationality of Rational Ends
- Kinds of Rational Ends
- Particular Ends and General Principles
- IV. The Principle of Morality
- The Principle of Morality Introduced
- The Principle of Morality as the Most General Principle Applicable to Relations with Other Persons
- Why Should We Be Moral?
- Justice and the Obligations of Fairness. The Rawlsian System
- V. Love, Friendship, and Trust
- Moral Feelings
- Love
- Friendship
- Trust
- Love, Friendship, Trust, and the Ordering of Ends
- VI. The System of Ends: The Concept of the Life Plan
- Knowledge as a Rational End
- Art
- Instinctual Ends
- Survival
- Relations and Priorities among Ends
- The Concept of the Life Plan
- II. Means and Ends
- Part Two. Rational Ends and Social Structures
- VII. The Concept of Society
- A Sketch of Parson’s System
- Sociological and Normative Theory
- Society as a System of Ends
- VIII. Law as a Means and as an End
- The Intrinsic Value of Law
- Rules of Law and Expressive Relations
- Expressive Acts of Criminal Procedure
- The Legal Profession
- Law and Morals
- IX. Privacy: A Rational Context
- An Immodest Proposal: Electronic Monitoring
- Privacy and Personal Relations
- The Concreate Recognition of Privacy
- The Concept of Privacy Applied to the Problem of Monitoring
- The Role of Law
- VII. The Concept of Society
- Part Three. Life and Death
- X. Life Plans and Mortality
- Time and Identity
- Change and Uncertainty
- Death
- The Shape of the Life Plan
- The Concept of the Risk Budget
- XI. Imposing Risks on Others
- The General Theorem
- The Concept of the Risk Pool
- Ordinary and Grave Risks
- Obligations
- Some Further Limitations on the Risk Pool: Kidney Banks and Life Rafts
- XII. The Value of Life
- The Problem of Statistical Lives
- Some Entailments of Maximizing
- Some Invalid Arguments
- Fairness
- The Personalist Argument
- How One Dies
- The Primacy of the Concrete
- X. Life Plans and Mortality
- Notes
- Index
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