1st Edition

Virtue, Narrative, and Self Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action

Edited By Joseph Ulatowski, Liezl van Zyl Copyright 2021
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples include the role of narrative in the identification, differentiation, and cultivation of virtue,... Read more

1. Virtue, Narrative, and Self: An Introduction

Joseph Ulatowksi and Liezl van Zyl

2. Virtue Ethics and Narrative Virtue

Christine Swanton

3. Narrative Virtues and Second-Order Reasons

Garrett Cullity

4. Narrative Virtue Ethics?

Ramon Das

5. How Self-Narratives and Virtues Cause Actions

David Lumsden and Joseph Ulatowski

6. Virtue Ethics, Narrative and Revisionary Accounts of Rightness

Jason Kawall

7. Virtuous Perception: A Gibsonian Approach

Richard Paul Hamilton

8. Virtue Ethics, Blameworthiness, and Role Failure

Justin Oakley

9. Well-Being, Narrative Value, and Virtue Ethics

Nicholas Ryan Smith

10. On the Value of Moral Failure

Damian Cox

11. Who Wrote Nietzsche’s Autobiography?

Elijah Millgram

12. The Abnegated Self

Nellie Wieland

13. Integrity and Messy Lives

Tim Dare

Biography

Joseph Ulatowski is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Experimental Philosophy Research Group at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the author of Why Facts Matter (forthcoming) and Commonsense Pluralism about Truth: An Empirical Defence (2017).

Liezl van Zyl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is the author of Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2018) and Death and Compassion: A Virtue-based Approach to Euthanasia (Routledge, 2000).