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Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality : From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard.

In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and M...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davenport, John J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy.
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  • Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Sigla to Kierkegaard Works; 1 Introduction: Autonomy, Practical Identity, Self, and Character; 1 Existential Approaches to Personal Autonomy as Deep Responsibility; 2 An Overview of Main Themes and the Structure of the Analysis; 3 Practical Identity as the Issue: Parfit, Williams, Korsgaard, and Schechtman; 4 Galen Strawson's Episodic Self and Continuity of Consciousness; 5 Finishing the Preliminaries: The Present Self and the Concept of Character; 2 Narrative Realism about Practical Identity
  • 1 Key Ontological and Practical Objections to Narrative Theories2 Three Levels of Narrative Unity; 2.1 Rudd and the Narrative Implications of Contemporary Action Theory; 2.2 Levels 0 and 1: Consciousness and Planning Agency; 3 Literature vs Life: the Hard Problem for Narrative Theories; 3.1 Williams' Flawed Critique of MacIntyre; 3.2 Lippitt, Sartre, and the Logos Fallacy: Four Basic Theses of Narrative Realism; 3.3 Constructivist Theories, Fictionalism, and the Logos Fallacy; 4 The Defense of Narrative Realism: Towards a Viable Alternative; 4.1 Carr and Ricoeur
  • 4.2 Narravive, 'Rosebud' Elements, and Six Conditions of Narratival Connection4.3 The Self-Deception Objection; 5 Reflexive Additions: How Secondary Self-Narratives Enter into Our Narravive; 3 Narrative Unity, Autonomy, and Kierkegaard's Aesthetic-Ethical Distinction; 1 Kierkegaard's Contribution to Narrative Accounts of Practical Identity; 1.1 The Debate since Kierkegaard After MacIntyre; 1.2 A Summary of the Basic Narrative Realist Model of Practical Identity; 1.3 Kierkegaardian Extensions of Narrative Realism; 2 Narrative Unity-2 and Personal Autonomy: MacIntyre, Frankfurt, and Kierkegaard
  • 2.1 Four Modifications to Initial Hierarchical Models of Formal Autonomy2.2 How A and the Seducer fail the Integrity Requirement for Unity-2; 3 From Unity-2 (Caring) to Unity-3 (Wholeheartedness); 3.1 Wholehearted Caring versus Essential and Instrumental Conflict; 3.2 Wholeheartedness as a Regulative Good: Replies to Christman and Lippitt; 4 The Aesthetic and Ethical Stages Restated; 4.1 Kierkegaard's Ethically Grounded Wholeheartedness; 4.2 Strawson's Aestheticism?; 4 Kierkegaardian Wholeheartedness: Purity of Heart versus Doublemindedness
  • 1 The Remaining Problems for a Narrative Realist Account of Personal Autonomy2 Forms of Disunity in "Purity of Heart:" from Ethical to Religious Self-Unification; 2.1 The PH Thesis and Narrative Identity; 2.2 A Typology of Aesthetic and Ethical "Doublemindedness"; 3 Infinite Resignation, Faith, and Jest: Further Levels of Narrative Unity; 5 Selves in Time before Death: Kierkegaardian Religious Narrative Unity; 1 The Problem of Mortality and the Ontology of Narrative Selves in Time; 1.1 The Dilemma for Narrativist Realists; 1.2 Existential Narrative Realism: Narravives as Freely Growing Blocks