PHL240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Schechtman: Daniel Dennett, Narratology
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Naturalist/reductionist views: lives can be lived without relation to a tradition/good hermeneutical narrative theory: both a person"s sense of self and a person"s life are narrative in structure. Selves are inherently narrative entities: sense of self must be narrative, lives of selves are narrative in structure. Selves are beings who lead lives rather than merely having a history. Leading the life of a self involves understanding life as a narrative and enacting narrative one sees as one"s life. Self is constituted through human narration: agency requires narrative because we need to interpret behavior in context of a narrative for actions to be meaningful. Macintyre: to understand behavior and intention, need to place behaviors in context of intersecting stories (narrative, to be intelligible, action needs to be aimed at an end, actions flow intelligibly from intentions, unity of human life. Selfhood and the good are intertwined, therefore the self is narrative in form.
