This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual tradition.

The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional conservative idea of individual liberty--the liberty to dispose of one's property as one wishes--and replace it with a new one, according to...