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Good lives : autobiography, self-knowledge, narrative, and self-realization / Samuel Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Samuel, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiography--Philosophy.
- Autobiography.
- Autobiography--Authorship--Psychological aspects.
- Self-realization.
- Storytelling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Autobiography, self-knowledge, narrative, and self-realization
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Samuel Clark explores how we can learn about ourselves by reading, thinking through, and arguing about autobiography. He defends a self-realization account of the self and the good life, and argues that self-narration plays less role in our lives than some thinkers have supposed, and the development and expression of potential much more.
- Contents:
- Routemap 1: Autobiography
- Autobiography is recollection
- Autobiography is reflection on experience
- Autobiography is artefactual
- Autobiography is a genre
- Autobiography is Narrative
- Paradigm Autobiography form
- Autobiography is a local tradition
- Rationalism about Autobiography
- Autobiography as clue and as container
- Autobiography as historical data
- Autobiography as thought experiment
- Form enables reasoning
- Particular reasoning
- Diachronic reasoning
- Compositional reasoning
- Objection: Autobiographies are enovels
- Self-reflective reasoning
- Horizontal connection not vertical generalization
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263472-0
- 0-19-189774-4
- 0-19-263471-2
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