Avoiding the greatest plague of all : Plato and Aristotle -- Societal responsibility and the undeserving poor : John Locke -- The noble poor : Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith -- Empirical influences and the complexities of poverty : Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill -- Poverty as a...

Background and structure -- Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and universalism : questions of priority and coherence -- On human rights -- On global economic justice -- On liberal democratic foreign policy.