PHIL 1.15 Selves and Stories
Humans are narrators, making sense of themselves and their world. But what are narratives and how do they function? How do narratives engage emotions, desires, and imagination? What sorts of elements belong to narratives? What role does narration play in self-construction? Is it important to have ‘a life-story’? Are narratives an important part of authentic or ethical living? How do narratives differ from other forms of communicative or literary expression? How do individual narratives and social narratives interact? Can narratives serve as arguments or reasons or justifications or explanations? How do narratives figure in human inquiry, human agency, and moral responsibility?