Facing evil
"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
Print Book, English, ©1990
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1990
xii, 250 pages ; 25 cm
9780691073705, 9780691020952, 0691073708, 0691020957
21078068
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