The Fragility of the Moral Self

Self-esteem, care for the other, and a sense of justice are the three ethical dimensions within this teleological perspective on the ethical self.\n Finally, the self is dependent on narrative in order to question ethical theory that is insensitive to concrete situations, moral conflicts, and the &q...

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Published in:The Harvard theological review 2004-10, Vol.97 (4), p.359-381
Main Author: Haker, Hille
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Aristotle
Bildungsroman
Death
Derrida, Jacques
Ethical accountability
Ethics
Foucault, Michel
Identity
Levinas, Emmanuel
Literature
Moral judgment
Morality
Narratives
Novels
Postmodernism
Reflexivity
Ricoeur, Paul
Self
Social ethics
Teleological ethics
Theology
Violence
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Summary:Self-esteem, care for the other, and a sense of justice are the three ethical dimensions within this teleological perspective on the ethical self.\n Finally, the self is dependent on narrative in order to question ethical theory that is insensitive to concrete situations, moral conflicts, and the "fragility of goodness," to borrow Martha Nussbaum's term. In contrast to Aristotelian, teleological narratives of events (as in historical novels) or of individual lives (as in the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman), several other forms of narrative have emerged in the last century, and the deeply self-reflexive narratives of modern and postmodern literature have become the rule rather than the exception.
ISSN:0017-8160
1475-4517
DOI:10.1017/S0017816004000756