Mary F. Rousseau is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

...clearly and compactly written. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly ...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. Review of Metaphysics ...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. Review of Metaphysics ...clearly and compactly written. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

Mary F. Rousseau is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

...clearly and compactly written. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly ...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. Review of Metaphysics ...this is an excellent and well-written book which gives very much needed sharpness to the debate about contract societies and communal societies, and about our own obligation to make particular kinds of moral choices. Review of Metaphysics ...clearly and compactly written. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rarely does one encounter a book manifesting so much arduous, long-sustained thought... -- Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Mary Rousseau provides a cogent theory of human relationships, one grounded in experience and supported by testimony from classical antiquity to our own day. -- Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly