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Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities

I. Substance Direct Realism and Substances Substances Direct Realism and Essences Hylomorphism The Amorphism Challenge Meeting the Amorphism Challenge A Variety of Kinds of Forms Notes Degrees of Unity and Substance Gradualism The Special Status of Substances Unity Gradualism Substances and Other Objects Substance Gradualism and Real Essences Forms, Substances and Political Communities Notes II. Practical Reason Human Action, Reasons and the Good The Point of View of the Agent Human Action and Reasons Reasons for Action and the Good Human Fallibility Notes Reasons for Action, Human Nature and Morality Normative Constraints and the Point of View of the First Person The Twofold Role of Human Nature in Practical Rationality From Practical Normativity to Moral Normativity Moral Realism Notes Practical Reason and the Problem of Fit Morality and Ultimate Explanation Moral Realism, Naturalism and the Problem of Fit The Teleological Explanation of Fit Intentional Teleology and Fit Moral Fit and the Theological Problem Morality and Ultimate Explanation Again Notes III. Authority Human Action, the Political Community and the Common Good The Political Community between Action Theory and Metaphysics Action and Production Making the Political Community: Politics as Something We Do On the Common Good: Methodological Remarks Politics and the Common Good Notes Authority and the Unity of the Political Community Consent and Political Authority Political Authority: The Principle of Unity of the Political Community Authority, the Common Good, and the Criteria of Identity of Political Communities The Good in Political Discourse Notes Bibliography

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