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Self, Value, and Narrative - A Kierkegaardian Approach (Hardcover)
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Self, Value, and Narrative - A Kierkegaardian Approach (Hardcover)
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In Self, Value, and Narrative, Anthony Rudd defends a series of
interrelated claims about the nature of the self. He argues that
the self is not simply a given entity, but a being that constitutes
or shapes itself. But it can only do this non-arbitrarily if it has
a sense of the good by which it can be guided as it chooses to
endorse some of its desires or dispositions and repudiate others.
This means that there is an essentially ethical or evaluative
dimension to selfhood, and one which has an essentially
teleological character. Such self-constitution takes place in
narrative terms, through one's telling-and, more importantly,
living-one's own story. Versions of some or all of these ideas have
been developed by various influential writers (including Frankfurt,
Korsgaard, MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Taylor) but Rudd develops these
ideas in a way that is importantly different from others familiar
in the literature. He takes his main inspiration from Kierkegaard's
account of the self, and argues (controversially) that this account
belongs in the Platonic rather than the Aristotelian tradition of
teleological thinking. Through close engagement with much
contemporary philosophical work, Rudd presents a convincing case
for an ancient and currently unfashionable view: that the
polarities and tensions that are constitutive of selfhood can only
be reconciled through an orientation of the self as a whole to an
objective Good.
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