Table of Contents: Chaacter and Culture

Preface

I Character and Thought

1. Introductory 1

2. Habit and Temperament 3

3. Kant's Account 6

4. Thought 9

5. Qualifications and Caveats 11

6. Principle 15

7. Habits Again 16

8. The Importance of Character 18

II The Limits of the Good:

Courage, Temperance, and Self-Respect

1. The Problem of Courage 21

2. Solutions 25

3. Fortitude 28

4. Temperance 30

5. Self-Respect 37

6. Two Kinds of Self-Respect? 43

7. Limits 48

8. Temperance Again 52

III The Unity and Diversity of the Virtues:

Generosity and Related Matters

1. What Generosity Is Not 55

2. What Generosity Is 59

3. There Are at Least Two Kinds of Virtue 64

4. Can One Be Generous to a Fault? 71

5. The Diversity of the Virtues 76

6. Conclusion 86

IV Justice and Beyond

1. Conscientiousness 89

2. Justice and Virtue 91

3. Beyond Justice 98

4. Benevolence and Respect 102

5. Forgiveness and Self-Respect 108

V Virtue, Vice, and Passion

1. Two Problems 113

2. Akrasia 115

3. The Vices and Their Doubles 117

4. Theories of the Emotions 119

5. What Emotion Seems to Be 123

6. Emotion and Interpretation 126

7. Emotion and Feeling 129

8. Akrasia and Vice Contrasted 135

9. What Virtue Is 142

VI Character and the Social World

1. The Question 149

2. Some Difficulties 151

3. The Difficulties Generalized 159

4. Character in General 162

VII The Social Foundations of Character

1. Another Approach 165

2. The Moral Foundations of Commerce 165

3. Learning the Rules 169

4. Difficulties 171

5. Learning from the Rules 175

6. Ceremonial Rules 179

7. Institutions and the Formation of Principles 184

VIII Gifts

1. Questions 187

2. The Value of Activity 190

3. The Value of Solidarity 194

4. Limits of the Gift 199

5. A Mixed System 205

6. The Blessings of Compartmentalization 213

IX Punishment and Revenge

1. Character and the Minimal

Functions of the State 221

2. Punishment 223

3. Authority 225

4. The Problem of Revenge 227

5. A Solution 232

X The Politics of Envy

1. Introductory 237

2. The Badness of Envy 237

3. The Self-Esteem Explanation 240

4. Institutions and Self-Esteem 243

5. Politics and Envy 247

XI Character and the Survival of Liberalism

1. Introductory 255

2. Minimal Liberalism 256

3. The Preliberal World 258

4. The Liberal World 261

5. Finding Out Who One Is 265

6. Identity and a Datum and as a Task 269

7. A Vice without a Name 275

8. A Viable Liberalism 279

9. Prospects 287

Postscript: Toward a Society of Status? 293

Index

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