a middle ground between rigid rationality and aimless indifference
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2020-12-30
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Paul Ricoeur’s conception of ethics and morality, is determined by narrativity being their precondition, necessarily giving rise to the ethical experience. Narrativity is essential to an encompassing understanding of personal identity. Through narrative self-interpretation we have access to our ‘selves’ and undeniably engender the ethical. David Hume’s ‘is’-‘ought’ distinction, a commonly discussed metaethical theme, is bridged by Ricoeur’s narrative ethics. Ricoeur’s bridge between facts and values answers to ultimately undermining possibilities of epistemological and ethical suspicion, offering a middle ground between indubitable certainty and complete uncertainty. Narrative ethics’ solution to Hume’s infamous distinction, and its epistemological account of morality, contain a fruitful and original metaethical position, which deserves to be incorporated within the metaethical debate.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen