I'm going to be without a computer and online access once again. So this is going to have to be a quick post.

Bernstein in his Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics talks about the systematic dislocation of moral intentions (Kant) from consequences (utilitarianism) in ethical theory, with virtue ethics opposed to both.

What does that mean in terms of a philosophical diagnosis of a damaged ethical life? The consequence of the systematic dislocation of self from society says Bernstein. Hence the emphasis on the sphere of intimacy as a refuge that offers possibilities for an ethical life. It is here that we feel that ethics is more than emotings or obedience to impersonal rules.