Bruce Haddock is Professor of European Social and Political Thought at Cardiff University. Peri Roberts is Lecturer in Political Thought at Cardiff University. Peter Sutch is Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and International Relations, and Director of Politics at Cardiff University.

• 1. Introduction 2. Nation and Universe 3. Thin Universalism: Moral Authority and Contemporary Political Theory 4. Thin Universalism as Weak Foundationalism 5. Thin Universalism and the ‘Limits’ of Justification 6. How do Principles Work? 7. Why Thin Universalism Needs Conceptions of Society and Person 8. Proceduralism as Thin Universalism: Stuart Hampshire’s ‘Procedural Justice’ 9. Gender Equality and Cultural Justice: How Thin is Nussbaum’s Universalism? 10. Thin Universalism and Cultural Identity: The Case of Welsh Nationalism 11. Thin Universalism and Distributive Justice 12. Rawls on Human Rights: Liberal or Universal?