This book considers two different approaches to moral luck--the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck--and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the same time, it also considers recent developments in the field of virtue ethics and neo-kantianism.
Author(s): Nafsika Athanassoulis
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 216
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations, Sources and Translations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
1.2 Luck......Page 17
1.3 Moral luck: Examples......Page 22
1.4 Moral luck: A definition?......Page 30
1.5 Conclusion......Page 36
1.6 A note on style......Page 37
2.1 Preliminaries......Page 39
2.3 The case of Billy Budd and his Claggart......Page 48
2.4 Natural tendencies and cultivated dispositions......Page 50
2.5 Conclusion......Page 56
3.1 Introduction......Page 59
3.2 The case of Raskolnikov......Page 61
3.3 Developmental, situational and resultant luck......Page 63
3.4 Conclusion......Page 82
4.1 Introduction......Page 84
4.2 Immunity to luck......Page 86
4.3 Reason......Page 87
4.4 Choice and the voluntary......Page 90
4.5 Conclusion......Page 92
5.1 Introduction......Page 95
5.2 On the passions and the self-sufficiency of the moral life......Page 96
5.3 On nature and fatalism......Page 103
5.4 A solution to the problem of moral luck?......Page 106
5.5 Conclusion......Page 110
6.1 Introduction......Page 113
6.2 Kantian immunity from luck......Page 115
6.3 The intelligible world......Page 119
6.4 Interpreting Kant on the intelligible/sensible distinction......Page 121
7.1 Kantian virtue......Page 127
7.2 Habit and moral examples......Page 129
7.3 The doctrine of the mean......Page 131
7.4 Virtue, vice and weakness of will......Page 132
7.5 The role of inclinations......Page 134
7.6 Kantian character......Page 140
7.7 Conclusion......Page 144
8.1 Introduction......Page 148
8.2 Virtue ethics......Page 150
8.3 Slote......Page 154
8.4 Slote on luck......Page 155
8.5 Critique of Slote......Page 157
8.6 Hursthouse......Page 160
8.7 Hursthouse on luck......Page 162
8.8 Hursthouse on reason......Page 163
8.9 Modern Kantian ethics: Herman......Page 165
8.10 Critique of Herman......Page 168
8.11 Conclusion......Page 170
9.1 Moral luck......Page 173
9.3 Two pictures of the human life......Page 175
9.4 A further distinction......Page 179
9.5 Responsibility......Page 180
9.6 Conclusion......Page 181
Notes......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 205
C......Page 210
L......Page 211
R......Page 212
Z......Page 213
