By Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker
Is it attainable for postmodernism to provide coherent money owed of ethics in a fragmented social and highbrow international? during this assortment, a distinct foreign amassing of philosophers and literary students deal with the renewed curiosity within the literary textual content as a spotlight for moral matters. Exponents of this pattern contain Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, Cora Diamond, Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum--a contributor and a key determine during this quantity. This publication assesses the importance of this improvement for moral and literary conception.
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On one side of that imaginary central point (we can of course never find it) Aristotle will seem somewhat complacent; on the other Plato will seem rather authoritarian. On one side, only Plato’s passionate mysticism quite answers to our need for spiritual transcendence; on the other, only Aristotle’s diurnal tolerance quite captures our need for humanity. Lying more or less around this notional centre is a conception of the self, not as the old irreducible, impervious, and unchanging central core, but as a nevertheless ‘substantial’ and ‘continually developing’ permeable coalescence of affection and reflection, of ‘attachments’ and desires.
Here is one of the more influential pictures of that picture of the self, again from Iris Murdoch, in her 1967 essay, ‘The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts’:10 We are still living in the age of the Kantian man, or Kantian man-god . . How recognisable, how familiar to us, is the man so beautifully portrayed in the Grundlegung, who confronted even with Christ turns away to consider the judgment of his own conscience and to hear the voice of his own reason. Stripped of the exiguous metaphysical background which Kant was prepared to allow him, this man is with us still, free, independent, lonely, powerful, rational, responsible, brave, the hero of so many novels and books of moral philosophy .
If moral philosophy wishes to point to a 24 Deepening the self fundamental limitation or distortion of this dissociating kind in its own previous practice, it should beware of reading, or misreading, literature in just the same way. According to the moral philosophers we are interested in, another field of philosophy, namely epistemology, is both conceptually and chronologically anterior to mainstream modern philosophies of language, whether Continental or Anglo-Saxon. Further, the mainstream assumes that a certain picture of the self, namely its picture, is foundational for all philosophy.