What,and Where,Luck is: A Response to Jennifer Lackey |
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| Authors: | Neil Levy |
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| Affiliation: | University of Melbourne andUniversity of Oxford , |
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| Abstract: | In ‘What Luck Is Not’, Lackey presents counterexamples to the two most prominent accounts of luck: the absence of control account and the modal account. I offer an account of luck that conjoins absence of control to a modal condition. I then show that Lackey's counterexamples mislocate the luck: the agents in her cases are lucky, but the luck precedes the event upon which Lackey focuses, and that event is itself only fortunate, not lucky. Finally I offer an account of fortune. Fortune is luck-involving, and therefore easily confused with luck, but it is not itself lucky. |
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| Keywords: | Confucianism Confucian ethics relational ethics virtue appropriateness (yi) |
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