Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and
personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society
or is due to their own inadequacies. But in this major new book,
eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that the difficulty
runs much deeper, that it is due to the essential nature of the
divergent goods involved in this kind of choice. He shows more
generally that perfect human happiness and perfect virtue are
impossible in principle, a view originally enunciated by Isaiah
Berlin, but much more thoroughly and synoptically defended here
than ever before.
Ancient Greek and modern-day Enlightenment thought typically
assumed that perfection was possible, and this is also true of
Romanticism and of most recent ethical theory. But if, as Slote
maintains, imperfection is inevitable, then our inherited
categories of virtue and personal good are far too limited and
unqualified to allow us to understand and cope with the richer and
more complex life that characterizes today's world. And The
Impossibility of Perfection argues in particular that we need some
new notions, new distinctions, and even new philosophical methods
in order to distill some of the ethical insights of recent feminist
thought and arrive at a fuller and more realistic picture of
ethical phenomena.
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