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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 mai… Mehr…

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. Princeton University Press Ethics & Moral Philosophy Aristotle; action; Barry, Brian; Brown, James; character?morality; character; contingency; control; desert; destructiveness; egalitarianism; Enlightenment; expediency; Feinberg, Joel; Frankena, William; Gert, Bernard; good life; Hampshire, Stuart; hard reaction; human nature; indifference; insufficiency; Kant, Immanuel; Kurtz (character); malevolence; moral merit; morality; Nussbaum, Martha; our sensibility; Plato; Rawls, John; reflective temper; Socratic ideal; tragic situations; vices; vulnerability ,9780691073705 AU,DE,ES,FR,GB,UK,IT,MX,US, English Philosophy, Princeton University Press<