This book began as a . thesis, supervised in its early stages by Michael Stocker, and then by Kimon Lycos. I am extraordinarily fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with these two philosophers, and I owe a great deal to both of them. I thank Michael Stocker for the wonderful work he has done in ethics, for it is this more than anything else which ignited my interest in moral psychology. I also thank him for urging me to begin The Moral Self, and for the many stimulating, productive discussions we had in Melbourne prior to his departure for the United States. That departure had left me.
