Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Exploring Commitment -- 1 Commitment and Instrumental Reason -- I. Commitments Help Us Achieve a Broad Range of Goals -- II. Thinking Instrumentally Outside the Present -- III. When Making and Keeping Commitments Is Instrumentally Rational -- IV. Rational Commitments -- 2 Commitment, Identity, and Integrity -- I. Commitment and Coherence -- II. Commitment and Integrity -- III. Preserving Oneself -- IV. Avoiding Failure -- V. Fulfilling Our Plans -- VI. Integrating Ourselves Through Commitment -- 3 Commitment and Basic Goods -- I. Starting with Basic Aspects and Instances of Fulfillment -- II. Incommensurable Basic Goods -- III. Commitment and Incommensurability -- IV. Commitments and Priorities -- V. The Possibility of Measurement -- VI. Incommensurability, Identity, and Priority -- 4 Commitment and Vocation -- I. Identity, Focus, Commitment, and Vocation -- II. The Idea of Vocation -- III. Grounding Vocation -- IV. Commitment and Vocation: Convergence? -- V. The Narrow Gap Between Commitment and Vocation -- 5 Commitment and Love -- I. Love Commits -- II. The Beginning of Love -- III. Commitment Throughout Love's Trajectory -- IV. Commitment and Romantic Pursuit -- V. Commitment and Romantic Reconnection -- VI. Commitment and the Developing We -- VII. Commitment Is Vital to Love -- Conclusion: Commitment and Flourishing -- Index -- About the Author