Includes index.

Rival justices, competing rationalities -- Justice and action in the Homeric imagination -- The division of the post-Homeric inheritance -- Athens put to the question -- Plato and rational enquiry -- Aristotle as Plato's heir -- Aristotle on justice -- Aristotle on practical rationality -- The Augustinian alternative -- Overcoming a conflict of traditions -- Aquinas on practical rationality and justice -- The Augustinian and Aristotelian background to Scottish Enlightenment -- Philosophy in the Scottish social order -- Hutcheson on justice and practical rationality -- Hume's anglicizing subversion -- Hume on practical rationality and justice -- Liberalism transformed into a tradition -- The rationality of traditions -- Tradition and translation -- Contested justices, contested rationalities