The Bounds of Choice: Unchosen Virtues, Unchosen Commitments (Studies in Ethics (New York, N.Y.).)

Presents a sustained and original challenge to the orthodox understanding of the relationship between morality and voluntary choice. The two main theses of the book are that we can be morally responsible for aspects of our character that we have not chosen or otherwise authored, and that we can enter into interpersonal commitments to which we have not voluntarily consented. Many doubts have been raised about Kant's view of the place of sentiments and desires in morally worthy actions and in the virtuous moral character.