
Self, Value, and Narrative
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- 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
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