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This volume presents 12 original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings of morality and reason

Ronald Beiner wants to have it both ways. We know this because, near the end of his book, he tells us that he is a "dualist," someone for whom "philosophy and citizenship are defined by radically distinct purposes: the job of philosophy is to strive unconditionally for truth, and the job of citizenship is to strive for good and prudent judgment about the common purposes of civic life, and each should focus strictly on fulfilling its own appointed end without worrying too much about the other." So there needs to be "a steady appreciation of the fundamental chasm between what we (as citizens) need in the world of practice and what we (as human beings) need from the world of theory" (224). This, however, would be abhorrent to most of the political philosophers Beiner covers. Because they are not dualists but monists; to them, theory and practice should be one.

1. Philosophers on sexuality -- 2. What is sexuality? -- 3. Does sex have a purpose? -- 4. Feminism -- 5. Sexual morality -- 6. Adultery and fidelity -- 7. Homosexuality -- 8. The morality of abortion -- 9. Pornography -- 10. Sex differences -- 11. Gender equality -- 12. Sex talk -- 13. Romantic love -- 14. Marriage -- 15. Family and parenthood.

A review essay on a book by (1) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales ([Tomus I, Libri I-XIII. Edited by L. D. Reynolds] New York: Oxford U Press, 1965); & (2) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistles, 66-92), Vol. 2 ([Tr by Richyard M. Gummere, 1920] Reprint, Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press, 1991).

Legal and Political Philosophy , edited by Enrique Villanueva, is the first volume in the series Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy , published by Rodopi also under his editorship. It contains six original essays by leading political philosophers and philosophers of law (Waldron, Coleman, Postema, Shapiro, Sayre-McCord, and Kraus), along with critical papers on those essays, and replies. This is cutting edge work that elicits sharp responses already as it is published, with the debate joined as the authors reply. Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy is a new book series, edited by Enrique Villanueva, and published by Rodopi Publishers as part of Rodopi Philosophical Studies . The series will publish collections of new essays on topics in social or political or legal philosophy. New volumes will be published approximately every year or every other year