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The Unnatural Lottery - Character and Moral Luck (Paperback, New ed.)
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The Unnatural Lottery - Character and Moral Luck (Paperback, New ed.)
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The opportunities to become a good person are not the same for
everyone. Modern European ethical theory, especially Kantian
ethics, assumes the same virtues are accessible to all who are
capable of rational choice. Character development, however, is
affected by circumstances, such as those of wealth and socially
constructed categories of gender, race, and sexual orientation,
which introduce factors beyond the control of individuals.
Implications of these influences for morality have, since the work
of Williams and Nagel in the seventies, raised questions in
philosophy about the concept of moral luck. In The Unnatural
Lottery, Claudia Card examines how luck enters into moral character
and considers how some of those who are oppressed can develop
responsibility. Luck is often best appreciated by those who have
known relatively bad luck and have been unable to escape steady
comparison of their lot with those of others. author takes as her
paradigms the luck of middle and lower classes of women who face
violence and exploitation, of lesbians who face continuing pressure
to hide or self-destruct, of culturally Christian whites who have
ethnic privilege, and of adult survivors of child abuse. How have
such people been affected by luck in who they are and can become,
the good lives available to them, the evils they may be liable to
embody? Other philosophers have explored the luck of those who
begin from privileged positions and then suffer reversals of
fortune. Claudia Card focuses on the more common cases of those who
begin from socially disadvantaged positions, and she considers some
who find their good luck troubling when its source is the unnatural
lottery of social injustice. Author note: Claudia Card is Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with
teaching affiliations in women's studies and environmental studies.
She belongs to many philosophical societies, including the Midwest
Society of Women in Philosophy, the Society for Lesbian and Gay
Philosophy, and the North American Nietzsche Society. She serves on
several editorial boards and is the philosophy book review editor
for the "Journal of Homosexuality". Her other works include
"Feminist Ethics, ed.", "Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy, ed.",
and "Lesbian Choices".
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