Narrative, Self-Realization, and the Shape of a Life
Narrative, Self-Realization, and the Shape of a Life
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DOI：
10.1007/s10677-018-9885-7
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
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通讯作者：
Clark, Samuel
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作者：
Clark, Samuel
Velleman， MacIntyre等人认为，即使生活中包含的所有时刻都是相同的，但生活对生活在其中的人来说也可能是不同的，这可以用它们的叙事结构来解释。相反，我主张通过自我实现来解释，部分地通过解读齐格弗里德·沙逊（Siegfried Sassoon）堪称典范的人生叙事。我通过区分径向叙事概念的各种特征来决定这两种解释，并对每一种解释都表明，自我实现同样是一种很好的解释，或者我们应该更喜欢自我实现的解释，它应该解释的构成。我的结论是，如果生命的形态很重要，那是因为一些形态是自我实现的，而不是因为它们是叙述。
Velleman, MacIntyre, and others have argued for the compositional view that lives can be other than equally good for the person who lives them even though they contain all and only the same moments, and that this is explained by their narrative structure. I argue instead for explanation by self-realization, partly by interpreting Siegfried Sassoon's exemplary life-narrative. I decide between the two explanations by distinguishing the various features of the radial concept of narrative, and showing, for each, either that self-realization is just as good an account, or that we should prefer the self-realization account, of the composition it is supposed to explain. I conclude that, if the shape of a life matters, it matters because some shapes are self-realizations, not because they are narratives.