The unnatural lottery character and moral luck [WorldCat Entities]

"The Unnatural Lottery explores moral luck as mediated by gender, race, social class, and sexual passions. Opportunities to become good are not the same for all. Kantian ethics assumes the same virtues accessible to all rational choosers. Character, however, is affected by circumstances such as wealth and socially constructed categories of gender, race, and sexual orientation, introducing factors beyond the individuals' inctrol. The influences' implications for morality have, since the work of Williams and Nagel in the 1970s, raised questions in philosophy about the concept of moral luck. Claudia Card examines how luck enters into moral character and considers how responsibility can be developed, taking as paradigms the luck of working classes, of women facing violence and exploitation, of lesbians facing continuing pressure to hide or self-destruct, and of adult survivors of child abuse, as well as the luck of culturally Christian whites with ethnic privilege who find good luck troubling when its source is the unnatural lottery of social injustice. --From publisher's description."
"A philosophical defense of the concept of moral luck as mediated by gender, race, social class, and sexual passions and an exploration of its implications for responsibility."@en
"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 mora."