Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
True and false hope -- The tragic view of life -- Evil, desert, and character-morality -- Unchosen evil -- Morality beyond choice --Human worth and moral merit -- Good and evil in human nature -- Character-morality: taking stock -- The institutional dimension of character-morality -- The personal dimension of character-morality: the possibility of control -- The personal dimension of character-morality: the reflective temper -- Character-morality and our sensibility.
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"Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.