Prologue: the Great Ideas. Philosophy's business -- Plato, right and wrong -- The vocabulary of thought -- These chosen few -- Ideas we judge by: truth, goodness, and beauty. The liar and the skeptic -- Milder forms of skepticism -- The realm of doubt -- The pursuit of truth -- From truth to goodness and beauty -- Is and ought -- Real and apparent goods -- The range and scale of goods -- The ultimate and common good -- From truth and goodness to beauty -- Enjoyable beauty -- Admirable beauty -- The goodness of beauty and the beauty of truth -- Ideas we act on: liberty, equality, and justice -- The sovereignty of justice -- The freedom to do as one pleases -- The liberties to which we are entitled -- The dimensions of equality -- The equalities to which we are entitled -- The inequalities that justice also requires -- The domain of justice -- The justice and the authority of law -- Epilogue: great issues and questions -- Ideas, issues, and questions -- Concerning truth, goodness, and beauty -- Concerning liberty, equality, and justice.
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