Narrative Identity and Moral Identity - A Practical Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Kim Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She has a special interest in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, concerning issues of embodiment, selfhood and ethics. She is the editor of Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Commentary (Blackwell) and co-editor, with Catriona Mackenzie, of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency (Routledge). Klappentext This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics. Zusammenfassung This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrative Identity and Moral Identity Chapter 1: Locke, Hume and Kant on Selfhood Chapter 2: The Ambiguity of Embodiment: First- and Third-personal Perspectives Chapter 3: Intersubjectivity and the Second-personal Perspective Chapter 4: The Embodied Self and Narrative Identity Chapter 5: Narrative Identity and the Ethical Perspective Chapter 6: Practical Wisdom and Moral Exceptionality Chapter 7: Autonomy Competency and Narrative Competency Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Kim Atkins, Atkins Kim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2010
• EAN: 9780415887892
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88789-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge