Introduction : the vices of virtue : liberalism and the problem of ruthlessness
"Squeamishness is the crime" : ruthlessness, ethos, and the critique of liberalism
Between tragedy and utopia : Weber and Lukács on ethics and politics
A just man : Albert Camus and the search for a decent heroism
The "morality of prudence" and the fertility of doubt : Raymond Aron's defense of a realist liberalism
Against cynicism and sentimentality : Reinhold Niebuhr's chastened liberal realism
"The courage of... our doubts and uncertainties" : Isaiah Berlin, ethical moderation, and liberal ethos
Conclusion : good characters for good liberals? : ethos and the reconstruction of liberalism.