Some essays were first presented at the conference Character and Morality held at Radcliffe College in April 1988.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-483).
Aspects of identity and agency / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty and David Wong -- Identity and strong and weak evaluation / Owen Flanagan -- The moral life of a pragmatist / Ruth Anna Putnam -- Natural affection and responsibility for character : a critique of Kantian views of the virtues / Gregory Trianosky -- On the old saw that character is destiny / Michele Moody-Adams -- Hume and moral emotions / Marcia Lind -- The place of emotions in Kantian morality / Nancy Sherman -- Vocation, friendship, and community : limitations of the personal-impersonal framework / Lawrence A. Blum -- Gender and moral luck / Claudia Card -- Friendship and duty : some difficult relations / Michael Stocker.
Trust, affirmation, and moral character : a critique of Kantian morality / Laurence Thomas -- Why honesty is a hard virtue / Annette C. Baier -- Higher-order discrimination / Adrian M.S. Piper -- Obligation and performance : a Kantian account of moral conflict / Barbara Herman -- Rational egoism, self, and others / David O. Brink -- Is akratic action always irrational? / Alison McIntyre -- Rationality, responsibility, and pathological indifference / Stephen L. White -- Some advantages of virtue ethics / Michael Slote -- On the primacy of character / Gary Watson.