Society and its Purpose is the second and final volume of Rosmini's The Philosophy of Politics. In it, he examines the nature of all society before investigating the elements which form civil society. Social benevolence, freedom, equality, order and right are discussed in depth. The inviolable rights of the individual, irrespective of membership of any society, are established clearly before the author shows how morality 'tempers and reconciles social and extra-social right'.