Self, Value, and Narrative
A Kierkegaardian Approach
1st Edition
Published on 18. October 2012
277 pages
978-0-19-163548-9 (ISBN)
Description
Anthony Rudd presents a striking new account of the self as an ethical, evaluative being. He draws on Kierkegaard's thought to present a case for an ancient and currently neglected view: that the tensions which are constitutive of selfhood can only be reconciled through the understanding of the self as guided by an objective Good.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2012
Oxford University Press
€119.80
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- Chapter One: Self-Shaping and Self-Acceptance
- I. A Tension in Our Thinking
- II. Distinctions and Definitions
- Chapter Two: The Teleological Self: Plato and Kierkegaard
- I. The Teleological Self in Classical Ethics-and its Loss in Modernity
- II. Platonic Teleology
- III. Kierkegaard on the Self
- IV. Conclusion
- Appendix to Chapter Two: A Note for Kierkegaardians
- Chapter Three: Character
- I. Character and Expression
- II. Scepticism About Character: Goldie
- III. Scepticism About Character: Doris
- Part Two
- Introduction to Part Two
- Chapter Four: Personhood, Self-Shaping, and the Good
- I. Frankfurt: Identification and Caring
- II. The Platonic Critique of Frankfurt
- III. Value Realism Defended
- Chapter Five: Three Theories of Value: a Kierkegaardian Critique
- I. Frankfurt and Anti-Realism
- II. Korsgaard and Constructivism
- III. Foot and Ethical Naturalism
- Chapter Six: Being for the Good
- I. Pluralistic Value Realism
- II. Degrees of Value
- III. The Unity of the Good
- IV. Kierkegaard: the Ethical and the Religious
- V. A Case for Strong Platonism
- VI. The Ascent
- Part Three
- Introduction to Part Three
- Chapter Seven: Selfhood and Narrative
- I. Narrative and Intelligibility
- II. Narrating a Whole Life: the Narrative Self
- III. Narrating a Whole Life: First Personal Narratives
- IV. A Minimal Self?
- Chapter Eight: Narrative and Value
- I. The Narrative Form of Evaluation
- II. Episodic Ethics?
- III. Ethical Objections to Narrativity
- Chapter Nine: The Unconscious Self
- I. The Unconscious, Psychoanalysis, and Narrative
- II. The Unconscious as Complementary: from Freud to Jung
- III. The Unconscious and the Good
- IV. Knowing Oneself, Knowing the Good
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z
