"The Sea Beneath the Soil": Visions of the Good in Fiction and in Modern Moral Identity

Dissertation, The University of Chicago (2000)
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Abstract

This project examines the role of fiction in reflection on the moral life. In that context it proposes a moral anthropology in which an agent's values and her narrative self-understanding constitute her moral identity. Such an anthropology supports the claim that in the process of reading, an agent becomes reflective on the values and plots which constitute her own identity. This reflection offers an agent the choice to evaluate and change some of the values which orient her action in the world

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