Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility

Acknowledgements Abbreviations, Sources and Translations Introduction PART 1: MORAL LUCK Introduction Luck Moral Luck: Examples Moral Luck: A Definition? Conclusion A Note on Style PART 2: ARISTOTLE ON CONSTITUTIVE LUCK Preliminaries Constitutive Luck The Case of Bill Budd and Claggart Natural Tendencies and Cultivated Dispositions Conclusion PART 3: ARISTOTLE ON DEVELOPMENTAL, SITUATIONAL AND RESULTANT LUCK Introduction The Case of Askolnikov Developmental, Situational and Resultant Luck Conclusion PART 4: ARISTOTLE AND REASON Introduction Immunity to Luck Reason Choice and Voluntary Conclusion PART 5: THE STOICS Introduction On the Passions and the Self-sufficiency of the Moral Life On Nature and Fatalism A Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck? Conclusion PART 6: KANT ON LUCK Introduction Kantian Immunity from Luck The Intelligible World Interpreting Kant on the Intelligible/Sensible Distinction PART 7: KANT ON VIRTUE Kantian Virtue Habit and Moral Examples The Doctrine of the Mean Virtue, Vice and Weakness of Will The Role of Inclinations Kantian Character Conclusion PART 8: VIRTUE ETHICS AND NEO-KANTIANS: SLOTE, HURSTHOUSE AND HERMAN Introduction Virtue Ethics Slote Slote on Luck Critique of Slote Hursthouse Hursthouse on Luck Hursthouse on Reason Modern Kantian Ethics: Herman Critique of Herman Conclusion PART 9: CONCLUSION Moral Luck From Aristotle or Kant to Aristotle and Kant Two Pictures of Human Life A Further Distinction Responsibility Conclusion Bibliography