Introduction -- Nation and universe / Michael Walzer -- Thin universalism : moral authority and contemporary political theory / Peter Sutch -- Thin universalism as weak foundationalism / Bruce Haddock -- Thin universalism and the "limits" of justification / Mark Evans -- How do principles work? / Axel Kaehne -- Why thin universalism needs conceptions of society and person / Peri Roberts -- Proceduralism as thin universalism : Stuart Hampshire's "procedural justice" / John Horton -- Gender equality and cultural justice : how thin is Nussbaum's universalism? / Andrea Baumeister -- Thin universalism and cultural identity : the case of Welsh nationalism / Gwenllian Lansdown -- Thin universalism and distributive justice / David Boucher -- Rex Martin Rawls on human rights : liberal or universal?.