What connection is there between living well, in the sense of living a life of ethical virtue, and faring well, in the sense of living a life good for the agent whose life it is? Defenses of a connection between exercising the virtues and living a good life often display two commitments: first, to addressing their answer to the person whose life is in question and, second, to showing that virtue is what I call a reliability conferring property. I challenge both commitments. I propose we take up the question from the dialogical point of view implicit in contexts where one person (an “ethical trustee”) is charged with the care of the character of another (an “ethical trustor”) and argue that virtue is what I call a status conferring property. Ethical trustees benefit their trustors by inculcating the virtues because in doing so they bestow on them a status that is necessary for a good life.

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教好孩子

过得好（在道德美德的意义上过的生活）与过得好（在对生命所在的代理人有益的生活的意义上）之间有什么联系？捍卫美德与过上美好生活之间的联系通常表现出两个承诺：首先，向生活有问题的人回答他们的问题，其次，表明美德是我所说的赋予可靠性的财产。我挑战这两项承诺。我建议我们从一个人（“道德受托人”）负责照顾另一个人（“道德委托人”）的性格的语境中隐含的对话观点提出这个问题，并认为美德是我调用状态赋予属性。