Laurence Thomas is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

"Laurence Thomas's new book, The Family and the Political Self is a highly original, thought provoking, and movingly written meditation on the proposition that human beings are capable of and very frequently demonstrate that they actually have considerable altruism." - Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Uniquely valued; 2. Reconceptualizing the moral self; 3. The family as a model for society; 4. From family to E Pluribus Unum; Epilogue: the liberty between Plato and modern liberalism.

Laurence Thomas is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

"Laurence Thomas's new book, The Family and the Political Self is a highly original, thought provoking, and movingly written meditation on the proposition that human beings are capable of and very frequently demonstrate that they actually have considerable altruism." - Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Uniquely valued; 2. Reconceptualizing the moral self; 3. The family as a model for society; 4. From family to E Pluribus Unum; Epilogue: the liberty between Plato and modern liberalism.

Laurence Thomas is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

"Laurence Thomas's new book, The Family and the Political Self is a highly original, thought provoking, and movingly written meditation on the proposition that human beings are capable of and very frequently demonstrate that they actually have considerable altruism." - Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Uniquely valued; 2. Reconceptualizing the moral self; 3. The family as a model for society; 4. From family to E Pluribus Unum; Epilogue: the liberty between Plato and modern liberalism.