Matthew Kramer: Liberalism with Excellence

Abstract

Liberalism with Excellence is Matthew Kramer’s first of two books on justice. It is, as he states in its preface, ‘in many respects a prolegomenon to the second volume, A Stoic Theory of Justice’. The book is, nonetheless, a well-argued and complex self-standing work; a fresh contribution to the sempiternal question: what are the bases for the legitimacy of the exercise of public power?