ABSTRACT
Moral luck is a reality, and this opens up some real paradoxes. There are four types of moral luck such as Constitutive luck, circumstantial luck, outcome luck, effects of action. Constitutive luck has to do with the past, and refers to those aspects of one's present character, outlook and being that one was lucky or unlucky to have been born with or that one developed in early childhood. Circumstantial luck has to do with the present, and refers to the luck of whether or not one finds oneself in a particular situation of adversity. The causes of action have to do with the luck underlying the configuration of different kinds of forces, metaphysical, physical, biological, psychological. Whether one succeed or fail at any endeavour often has a lot to do with luck. Bernard Williams agrees that there is a certain threat from luck, but makes some different points about the role it plays in people's lives.
