ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the conceptual relationships between others-centeredness, on the one hand, and putative virtues to which it is similar and vices to which it is opposed, on the other, resulting in a partial map of the role of others-centeredness within the life of the morally excellent person. With respect to similar virtues, the chapter maintains that others-centeredness is neither identical nor reducible to any of the various traits identified by contemporary virtue theorists with humility, generosity, or love. If anything, it is more commonly these latter traits that are reducible to others-centeredness. As such, others-centeredness offers contemporary virtue theorists a distinctive and relatively fundamental trait to study. With respect to opposing vices, the chapter maintains that the conception of others-centeredness provided in the book illuminates the domain of vices contrary to this trait, helping us to understand the nature of certain versions of hate, schadenfreude, envy, pride, and greed. These vices stand opposed to others-centeredness in different ways, with some being immediately incompatible with it and others being impossible to integrate alongside it within a unified psyche.
