People today seem to be quite willing to speak the language of ethics. This may be due in part to the growing sense that we are being swamped with questions that at their core are ethical. But people appear also to be increasingly aware that questions of ethics are not merely “out there.” On the contrary, we find ourselves bombarded with decisions about how we should live and what kind of persons we ought to be. And we realize that somehow what we do and who we are matters. Viewed from this