Contents

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Editor’s Preface    vii

Acknowledgments    xi

PART ONE  Lectures    1

CHAPTER 1  Plato and His Predecessors    3

CHAPTER 2  Hobbes    65

CHAPTER 3  Locke on Property and Political Obligation    103

CHAPTER 4  Hume’s Critique of Locke on Contract    120

CHAPTER 5  Kant’s Ethics    138

CHAPTER 6  Hegel: Minds, Masters, and Slaves    183

CHAPTER 7  Nietzsche    201

PART TWO  Papers    245

CHAPTER 8  Bourgeois and Proletarians    247

CHAPTER 9  The Workers and the Word: Why Marx Had the Right to Think He Was Right    268

CHAPTER 10  Reply to Elster on “Marxism, Functionalism, and Game Theory”    284

CHAPTER 11  Review of Karl Marx, by Allen W. Wood    298

CHAPTER 12  Reason, Humanity, and the Moral Law    305

PART THREE  Memoir    325

CHAPTER 13  G. A. Cohen: A Memoir    327
Jonathan Wolff

Works Cited    345

Index    355