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...

Part I. Social justice -- The question of justice -- Why utilitarianism is not the best option -- Part II. Pluralism, public reason, and political stability -- The departure from classical liberalism -- Justice as fairness : a re-interpretation -- Why public reason is not the "public use of...