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Preface -- Prolegomenon: Hayek's Three Unsettling Theses -- Beyond Human Nature -- Beyond Moral Justification -- Beyond Human Governance -- Three Enquiries On The Open Society -- The Rise Of A Normative Species -- A Natural History Of Moral Order -- The Starting Point -- The Egalitarian Revolution -- Self-interest, Reciprocity And Altruism -- Internalized, Enforced, Social Rules -- The Other Side Of Morality -- Cultural Evolution -- Part I: The Rise And (partial) Fall Of Inequality -- A Complex Moral Species -- The Diversity And Self-organized Complexity -- Liberalism And The Open Society -- Understanding Diversity -- Autocatalytic Diversity -- Diversity And Complexity -- Too Much Complexity? -- The Morality Of Self-organization -- The Social Contract -- A Self-organization Model -- Moral Diversity In The Open Society -- Part Ii: The Complexities Of Self-governance -- Self-governance -- Macro Control -- Macro Structure -- Strategic Dilemmas And Polycentricity -- Meso-level Goal Pursuit -- Sectoral Policy -- Self-governance From The Bottom-up: Simplifying The Problems Of Governance -- Our Moral Nature And Governance In The Open Society -- Liberal Democracy -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B. Gerald Gaus. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.