“”Richard Kyte’’s An Ethical Life: A Practical Guide to Ethical Reasoning is first-rate. It is wonderfully accessible, deeply informed, and genuinely constructive. The text’’s integrating theme is that the influential and contending theories arising out of Mill’’s utilitarianism, Kant’’s categorical imperative, and an Aristotelian account of the virtues can converge——creatively——in one’s personal moral vision, in our shared problem-solving, and in fashioning good public policy. This creative convergence, Kyte emphasizes, depends on a healthy regard for the framework of facts that at every level are the context of moral inquiry.””