The Self and Its Discontents: Recent Work on Morality and the Self
Views of the self may be plotted on a set of coordinates. On the axis that runs from fragmentation to unity, Rorty and Rorty's Freud champion the decentered self while Wallwork, Taylor, and Ricoeur argue for a sovereign, unified self. On the other axis, which runs from the disengaged, inward-tu...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1994
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 187-210 |
Review of: | Varieties of moral personality (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1993) (Lauritzen, Paul)
Varieties of moral personality (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1993) (Lauritzen, Paul) |
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Summary: | Views of the self may be plotted on a set of coordinates. On the axis that runs from fragmentation to unity, Rorty and Rorty's Freud champion the decentered self while Wallwork, Taylor, and Ricoeur argue for a sovereign, unified self. On the other axis, which runs from the disengaged, inward-turning self to the engaged and "sedimented" self, Wallwork, would be positioned near Rorty, defending self-creation against the narrative identity affirmed by Taylor and Ricoeur. Despite his skepticism concerning the communitarian agenda of the narrativists, Flanagan grants that the self is social and relational--a position further explored by Oliver, Stendahl, Deutsch, and Mack in "Selves, People, and Persons". |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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