Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian,
or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues
for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in
this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican
alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate
between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic,
a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include
Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.