How Should We Live?: A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
	The Problem and the Project
	Conflicts
	Real Lives
	Ideal Theories
	The Argument
Chapter 2. Absolutist Morality
	The School Teacher
	Absolutist Morality
	Commitments
	Overriding Commitments?
	A Dilemma
Chapter 3. Individual Autonomy
	The Lawyer
	Autonomy
	Misguided Theorizing
	The Divided Self
	Ambivalence and Understanding
Chapter 4. Reflective Self-Evaluation
	The Dutiful Man
	Self-Evaluation
	Real Lives and Ideal Theory
	Contingency
	Justification
Chapter 5. Unconditional Love
	The Father
	Love
	Problems
	Sentimentalism
	Love within Reason
Chapter 6. Strong Evaluation
	The Nurse
	Strong Evaluation
	Doubts
	Capacity or Activity?
	Fact or Ideal?
	Loss
Chapter 7. Narrative Unity
	The Civil Servant
	The Narrative Ideal
	Criticism
	Are Narratives Reliable?
	The Ideal and the Real
Chapter 8. Practical Reason
	The Divided Woman
	Practical Reason
	Complexities
	All Things Considered
	What Reason Requires and Allows
Chapter 9. Inescapable Reflection
	The Dean
	Reflection
	Knowledge
	Confidence
	The Route Back
Chapter 10. Necessary Truthfulness
	The Betrayed Woman
	Genealogy
	Criticisms
	Vindicatory Genealogies
	Subversive Genealogies
	The Very Idea of Genealogies
	Truthfulness and the Practical Approach
Chapter 11. Conclusion
	The Practical Approach
	The Error of Omission
	Impracticality
	Implausibility
Notes
Bibliography
Index