A Treatise on Equality and Partiality is Thomas Nagel's main work on political philosophy. Originating from his Locke Lectures held in Oxford in 1990, Nagel explores in this dense treatise the conflict between individual freedom and social equality - between the individual and the collective. He identifies this conflict as the fundamental problem of political philosophy, which cannot be resolved at the systemic level, as it stems from the fact that each person is capable of adopting two perspectives: the personal and the impersonal. Addressing this inescapable dualism is the task of any political doctrine that seeks to answer the question: "How should we live together in a society?" A classic.