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FROM MORALITY TO VIRTUE This page intentionally left blank FROM MORALITY TO VIRTUE MICHAEL SLOTE New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1992 by Michael Slote First published in 1992 by Oxford University Press, Inc. 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Slote, Michael A. From morality to virtue / Michael Slote. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-19-507562-5 ISBN 0-19-509392-5 (paperback) 1. Ethics. 2. Virtue. 3. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804—Ethics. 4. Common sense. 5. Utilitarianism. I. Title. BJ1012.S5165 1992 170—dc20 91-38853 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 42 Printed in the United States of America This sharp distinction of virtue and morality as co-ordinate and inde- pendent forms of goodness will explain a fact which otherwise it is difficult to account for. If we turn from books on Moral Philosophy to any vivid account of human life and action such as we find in Shake- speare, nothing strikes us more than the comparative remoteness of the discussions of Moral Philosophy from the facts of actual life. H. A. Prichard in "Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?" This page intentionally left blank For David Lewis and Derek Parfit This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book has accumulated many debts on the path to completion. Portions of Chapters 1 and 3 have previously appeared in Owen Flana- gan and Amelie Rorty, eds., Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology (Bradford/MIT, 1990). For helpful criticisms and suggestions, I would like to thank Marcia Baron, Larry Blum, Keith Campbell, Louis Pojman, Georges Rey, Amelie Rorty, Ernie Schlaretzki, Jerry Schneewind, Nancy Sherman, Peter Simpson, and, especially, Derek Parfit and two readers for Oxford University Press. I am also grateful to Terry Mackey for secretarial assistance.
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