Normative identity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Per Bauhn.
• Authors: Bauhn, Per
• Contents: Normative Identity; Contents; Preface; 1 The Concept of Normative Identity; Personal Identity and Normative Identity; Normative Identity and Ethnocentrism; The Descriptive and Prescriptive Components of a Normative Identity; Conflicted Normative Identities; Normative Identity and Weakness of Will; 2 The Need for Meaning; Meaning and Normative Identity; The Threat of Meaninglessness; Meaning and Culture; 3 The Narrative Conception of Self; Narrative and Being the Author of One's Life; Narrative and Culture; Religion as a Narrative Framework; Fact and Fiction; Clan Narratives Narratives of an Idealized Future: Robespierre, Kant, Marx and EngelsFrom Narrative to Justification; 4 The 'Is'-'Ought' Problem; Hume's Law; Promises and Hume's Law; Thick Concepts; Normative Identities as Thick Concepts; Normative Identities and Hume's Law; The Communitarian Fallacy; The Fallacy of Excessive Abstraction; 5 Normative Identity and Agency; The Gewirthian Argument; Aspiration-Fulfilment and Capacity-Fulfilment; The Cases of Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill; How Demanding Is Capacity-Fulfilment?; Making the Most of One's Freedom and Well-Being; 6 The Citizen Agent The Necessity of StatesThe Normative Identity of a Citizen Agent; Citizen Agents and the Fair Share Argument; Citizen Agents and Humanitarian Interventions; 7 The Artist Agent; Beauty and the Artist Agent; Beauty and the Virtues; The Significance of Humanist Culture and the Arts; Beauty under Attack; 8 Concluding Comments: Normative Identities for an Imperfect World; The Possibility of Being a Prospective Citizen Agent; Trying against the Odds to Become an Artist Agent; The Importance of Education (1); The Problem of Inhospitable Cultures; Dealing with Inhospitable Minority Cultures The Importance of Education (2)Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Publisher Details: London : Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 126; Identity (Philosophical concept); Agent (Philosophy); Normativity (Ethics); Agent (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); Normativity (Ethics); PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783485789; 1783485787
• Related ISBNs: 9781783485765
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 24, 2017).
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