This is also why he lays out what he calls the narrative character of a human life. Each life is a subplot, with each social tradition being the plot. Similarly, what binds you and Hilary Rodham Clinton together is that you both participate in the same social tradition, each adding in your own ways to that tradition. And it is in this common tradition that we are to find what counts as a virtue and what doesn t. Virtues can t be specified outside of a tradition.
Traditions are many.
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