moral examples 116 7.3 The doctrine of the mean 118 7.4 Virtue, vice and weakness of will 119 7.5 The role of inclinations 121 7.6 Kantian character 127 7.7 Conclusion 131 8 Virtue Ethics and Neo-Kantians: Slote, Hursthouse and Herman 135 8.1 Introduction 135 8.2 Virtue ethics 137 8.3 Slote 141 8.4 Slote on luck 142 8.5 Critique of Slote 144 8.6 Hursthouse 147 8.7 Hursthouse on luck 149 8.8 Hursthouse on reason 150 8.9 Modern Kantian ethics: Herman 152 8.10 Critique of Herman 155 8.11 Conclusion 157 9 Conclusion 160 9.1 Moral luck 160 9.2 From Aristotle or Kant to Aristotle and Kant 162 Contents ix 9.3 Two pictures of the human life 162 9.4 A further distinction 166 9.5 Responsibility 167 9.6 Conclusion 168 Notes 170 Bibliography 192 Index 197