CONTENTS :

Introduction / John Hymers
Equality and democracy: the problem of minimal competency / Thom Brooks
Personal identity, projects, and morality in Bernard Williams' earlier writings / Joseph Okumu
Waldron's defence of the natural duty of justice revisited / Serge Pukas
Can sublimation be brought about through idealization? / Paul Moyaert
Discourse on the foundations of solidarity in the social encyclicals of John Paul II / Ugochukwu Jude Njoku

Introduction: Ethics and the ground / John Hymers
Two slices from the same loaf? Weil and Levinas on the demand of social justice / Tanya Loughead
Is it rational to pursue utilitarianism? / A. Gandjour
Towards an Aristotelian sense of obligation / S. Grant
Usefulness and limitations of evaluation scales in the care of elderly people / I. Dagneaux
The end of free entry? - Some synthetic considerations and personal reflections / P. Van Parijs

Foreword: The rich tapestry of identity / John Hymers
The expansion of forensic DNA databases and police sampling powers in the post-9/11 era: Ethical considerations on genetic privacy / Nathan Van Camp & Kris Dierckx
Cosmopolitan roads to culture and the festival road of humanity: The cosmopolitan praxis of Nietzsche's good European against Kantian cosmopolitanism / Martine Prange
Jürgen Habermas's writings on Europe: Not Habermasian enough? / Vivienne Boon
Scandals of sovereignty / Adam Rosen

Introduction / Ullrich Melle
New wilderness landscapes as moral criticism / Martin Drenthen
Pining for the wild / Glenn Deliège
The beastly familiarity of wild alterity: Debating the 'nature' of our fascination with wildness / T.R. Kover
Wilderness, wasteland, and homeland: Comments on Drenthen / Nathan Edward Kowalsky
Alienation and the siren song / Wim Bollen
Postmodernism, deep ecology and the idea of wildness: Some problems Drenthen's formulations / Kingsley Goodwin
Reflections on the meaning of nature / Ullrich Melle