Part1: Introduction
1. Exploring Moral Agency Across Traditions Jonathan Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Part2: Perspectives on Agency and Character
2. Early Confucianism as a Model for Crafting Character Philip J. Ivanhoe 3. Moral Habituation and Techn? in Aristotle’s Ethics Tom Angier 4. Crafting Character: Lessons from Confucianism and Stoicism May Sim 5. The Zen Transformation of Ordinary Life into Buddhist Practice: Eating and Drinking as Exploration of Buddha-Nature Christopher W. Gowans 6. Must We Become Who We Are? Aristotle, Confucius, and Maimonides on Moral Agency and Character Jonathan Jacobs 7. The Heart-Mind as that Which Needs Moral Formation: Heinz-Dieter Meyer 8. Kant on Self-Governance: The Structural Nexus of Practical Reason, Will, and Gemut (Mind) G. Felicitas Munzel 9. On the Use and Misuse of Moral Exemplars for Self-Improvement Amber D. Carpenter 10. Crafting Character with Aristotle and Augustine George Heffernan 11. Moral Agency, Situationism, and Virtue: Xunzi on Moral Development Richard Kim 12. Selfless Agency and the Cultivation of a Moral Character: Insights from Vasubandhu and Derek Parfit Oren Hanner 13. The Formation of Moral Character Through No-Self in Neo-Confucian Thought Doil Kim
Part3: Character and Commensurability
14. The Heart-Mind in the West-Testing for Common Ground Heinz-Dieter Meyer 15. A Look Back to Find a Way Forward Jonathan Jacobs