Structuring Lives and Stories
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu15031509569254672021-08-03T07:03:57Z Structuring Lives and Stories McLean, Brian C. Philosophy Frankfurt narrative reflection theory of agency moral psychology life-structuring commitments I address philosophical questions about the relationship between how we structure our own lives over time and how we reflect on how we are structuring our own lives over time. In the first three chapters, I develop an account of the conditions under which an agent counts as structuring her own life. This is the Rational Immersion View: an agent counts as structuring her own life if she has a commitment that manifests across a wide range of circumstances and whose manifestation consists in immersive activity that involves the extensive deployment of her rational capacities for deliberation and planning. The main advantage of this view is that it can account for forms of independence between how we structure our lives and the exercise of our reflective capacities: for instance, it can account for agents who structure their lives around the pursuit of commitments that they do not endorse acting upon. In the final chapter, I argue that the exercise of our reflective capacities, when directed toward our life-structuring commitments, involves the exercise of our story-telling capacities: to acquire full awareness of a life-structuring commitment, as a potential ground for action, one needs to tell a story of one’s life structured by the pursuit of that commitment. This proposal allows us to illuminate the respect in which reflection on a commitment involves stepping back from the commitment: one acquires critical distance from a commitment when there is ironic distance between one’s perspective while reflecting and one’s perspective while immersed in the pursuit of that commitment. 2017 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503150956925467 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503150956925467 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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