Moral Tradition and Individuality

by John Kekes

Book Overview

In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In addressing general readers as well as scholars, Kekes makes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691078130
• ISBN13: 9780691078137
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"