| Preface | p. ix |
| Notes on the contributors | p. xi |
| Biographical note on David Gauthier | p. xv |
| Gauthier's three projects | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Gauthier's moral methodology | p. 1 |
| Gauthier's contractarian theory | p. 3 |
| Gauthier's rational-choice framework | p. 5 |
| The initial bargaining position | p. 6 |
| The bargaining solution | p. 7 |
| The rationality of complying with rational agreements | p. 9 |
| Conclusion | p. 11 |
| Gauthier's contractarian moral theory | |
| Overview of the essays | p. 13 |
| Why contractarianism? | p. 15 |
| Two faces of contractarian thought | p. 31 |
| Gauthier's foundations for ethics under the test of application | p. 56 |
| Deliberation | p. 58 |
| Revolution | p. 64 |
| Accumulation of exceptions | p. 66 |
| Contractarianism and the assumption of mutual unconcern | p. 71 |
| Moral standing and rational-choice contractarianism | p. 76 |
| Rational-choice contractarianism | p. 78 |
| Moral standing | p. 81 |
| Moral standing in rational-choice contractarian morality | p. 83 |
| Self-interest and moral standing | p. 90 |
| Minimax relative concession and the Lockean Proviso | |
| Overview of the essays | p. 97 |
| The Lockean Proviso | p. 99 |
| Moralities and starting points | p. 101 |
| Slaves, servants, and serfs | p. 102 |
| The market as moral anarchy | p. 104 |
| Prerequisites for social agreement | p. 106 |
| Three rejoinders | p. 108 |
| Providing for rights | p. 112 |
| Gauthier on distributive justice and the natural baseline | p. 127 |
| Introduction: Gauthier's contractarianism | p. 127 |
| Gauthier on distributive justice | p. 129 |
| Gauthier on predatory gains and the Lockean Proviso | p. 136 |
| On the Hobbesian starting point | p. 144 |
| Relations between states | p. 146 |
| Summary | p. 147 |
| Equalizing concessions in the pursuit of justice: A discussion of Gauthier's bargaining solution | p. 149 |
| Gauthier's approach to distributive justice and other bargaining solutions | p. 162 |
| Nash's bargaining solution | p. 163 |
| The Kalai-Smorodinski solution | p. 168 |
| Gauthier's maximin solution | p. 170 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 175 |
| The rationality of keeping agreements | |
| Overview of the essays | p. 177 |
| Deception and reasons to be moral | p. 181 |
| Contractarianism and moral skepticism | p. 196 |
| The skeptical problem: First account | p. 198 |
| The contractarian solution | p. 200 |
| Rational compliance and skepticism | p. 204 |
| The relevance objection: Substantive impartiality | p. 208 |
| The relevance objection: Archimedean impartiality | p. 212 |
| Justification: Internal objections | p. 219 |
| Justification: External objections | p. 224 |
| The skeptical problem: Revised account | p. 225 |
| Deriving morality from rationality | p. 229 |
| Introduction | p. 229 |
| Gauthier's core argument for the rationality of compliance | p. 232 |
| Comment on premises 1 and 2 | p. 235 |
| Does constrained maximization maximize expected utility? | p. 238 |
| The alleged rationality of carrying out rational intentions | p. 244 |
| The derivation of morality from rationality | p. 249 |
| Morality and the theory of rational choice | p. 254 |
| The rational-choice framework | p. 255 |
| Fairness and constrained maximization | p. 261 |
| Fairness and bargaining | p. 262 |
| Fairness and stability | p. 265 |
| Broad and narrow compliance | p. 272 |
| The arguments from rational and costless bargaining | p. 286 |
| Conclusion | p. 289 |
| Closing the compliance dilemma: How it's rational to be moral in a Lamarckian world | p. 291 |
| The compliance problem | p. 291 |
| Substantive rationality | p. 297 |
| Procedural rationality | p. 306 |
| Morality | p. 316 |
| Conclusion | p. 322 |
| Rational constraint: Some last words | p. 323 |
| Bibliography | p. 331 |
| Index | p. 337 |
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