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Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper.

Character --- Good and evil --- Aristotle. --- Barry, Brian. --- Brown, James. --- Enlightenment. --- Feinberg, Joel. --- Frankena, William. --- Gert, Bernard. --- Hampshire, Stuart. --- Kant, Immanuel. --- Kurtz (character). --- Nussbaum, Martha. --- Plato. --- Rawls, John. --- Socratic ideal. --- action. --- character. --- character–morality. --- contingency. --- control. --- desert. --- destructiveness. --- egalitarianism. --- expediency. --- good life. --- hard reaction. --- human nature. --- indifference. --- insufficiency. --- malevolence. --- moral merit. --- morality. --- our sensibility. --- reflective temper. --- tragic situations. --- vices. --- vulnerability.