A critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck. The 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 immuneto luck. INDICE: Abbreviations, Sources and Translations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Moral Luck - Aristotle on Constitutive Luck - Aristotle on Developmental, Situational and Resultant Luck - Aristotle and Reason - The Stoics - Kant on Luck - Kant on Virtue - Virtue Ethics and Neo-Kantians: Slote, Hursthouseand Herman - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24553-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés