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Good Lives - Autobiography, Self-Knowledge, Narrative, and Self-Realization (Hardcover)
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Good Lives - Autobiography, Self-Knowledge, Narrative, and Self-Realization (Hardcover)
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Reasoning with autobiography is a way to self-knowledge. We can
learn about ourselves, as human beings and as individuals, by
reading, thinking through, and arguing about this distinctive kind
of text. Reasoning with Edmund Gosse's Father and Son is a way of
learning about the nature of the good life and the roles that
pleasure and self-expression can play in it. Reasoning with
Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs is a way of learning about
transformative experience, self-alienation, and therefore the
nature of the self. Good Lives: Autobiography, Self-Knowledge,
Narrative, and Self-Realization develops this claim by answering a
series of questions: What is an autobiography? How can we learn
about ourselves from reading one? On what subjects does
autobiography teach? What should we learn about them? In
particular, given that autobiographies are narratives, should we
learn something about the importance of narrative in human life?
Could our storytelling about our own lives make sense of them as
wholes, unify them over time, or make them good for us? Could
storytelling make the self? Samuel Clark provides an authoritative
critique of narrative and a defence of a self-realization account
of the self and its good. He investigates the wide range of extant
accounts of the self and of the good life, and defends pluralist
realism about self-knowledge by reading and reasoning with
autobiographies of self-discovery, martial life, and solitude. The
volume concludes by showing that autobiography can be reasoning in
pursuit of self-knowledge; each of us is an unchosen, initially
opaque, seedlike self; our good is the development and expression
of our latent capacities, which is our individual self-realization;
and self-narration plays much less role in our lives than some
thinkers have supposed, and the development and expression of
potential much more.
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