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James Bernard Murphy challenges widely shared assumptions about personhood and its development through discrete stages, arguing they undermine our ability to see our lives as a whole. Drawing on classic and contemporary thinkers, Murphy argues that we live our whole lives as children, adolescents, and adults all at the same time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. The Story of Your Life
Part I. Stories of Development
Chapter 1. Human Nature from a Developmental Perspective
Chapter 2. Development as the Recapitulation of Nature in Aristotle
Chapter 3. Development as Preformation in Augustine's Confessions
Chapter 4. Development as the Recapitulation of History in Rousseau
Chapter 5. Development as Juvenilization in the Synoptic Gospels
Part II. Unifying the Whole
Chapter 6. All of Me: Stages and the Whole of Life
Chapter 7. What Am I? Human Beings and Human Persons
Chapter 8. Who Am I? A Storybook Life
Conclusion. A Practical Guide to Life Writing
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
James Bernard Murphy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is author of The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory, The Philosophy of Customary Law, The Philosophy of Positive Law, and, with Graeme Garrard, How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World.
Zusammenfassung
James Bernard Murphy challenges widely shared assumptions about personhood and its development through discrete stages, arguing they undermine our ability to see our lives as a whole. Drawing on classic and contemporary thinkers, Murphy argues that we live our whole lives as children, adolescents, and adults all at the same time.
