Good Lives

Samuel Clark is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University.

• 1. Introduction Part I 2. Routemap 1: Autobiography 3. Autobiography is Recollection 4. Autobiography is Reflection on Experience 5. Autobiography is Artefactual 6. Autobiography is a Genre 7. Autobiography is Narrative 8. Paradigm Autobiographical Form 9. Autobiography is a Local Tradition 10. Rationalism about Autobiography 11. Autobiography as Clue and as Container 12. Autobiography as Historical Data 13. Autobiography as Thought Experiment 14. Form enables Reasoning 15. Particular Reasoning 16. Diachronic Reasoning 17. Compositional Reasoning 18. Objection: Autobiographies are Novels 19. Self-reflective reasoning 20. Horizontal Connection not Vertical Generalization 21. Routemap 2: Uses of Autobiography 22. Two Purposes of Autobiography 23. The Delphic Demand 24. Explanation 25. Justification and Self-enjoyment 26. Selfhood 27. Good life 28. Reductionism about Meaning 29. Accounts of the Self 30. Taxonomies of the Self 31. Tasks for an Account of the Self 32. Accounts of the Good Life 33. Taxonomies of the Good Life 34. Tasks for an Account of the Good Life 35. The Self and its Good 36. Self-realization 37. Ethical Objections to Self-realization 38. Metaphysics of the Realizable Self 39. An Epistemological Objection to Self-realization 40. Experiential Objections to Self-realization 41. Routemap 3: from Part I to Part II Part II 42. Narrativist Views 43. Routemap 4: The Dialectic between Narrative and Self-realization 44. Siegfried Sassoon s Memoirs 45. The Shape of a Life 46. Narrative Non-additivity 47. Non-narrative Explanations of Non-additivity 48. Neither Agents nor Temporal Sequences Explain Non-additivity 49. Telling does not Explain Non-additivity 50. Genre does not Explain Non-additivity 51. Self-realization Explains Non-additivity 52. Narrative Self-unification 53. Irony vs Rosati 54. Transformative Experience vs Schechtman 55. Against Narrative Self-unification 56. For Self-realization over a Life 57. Objection: The Self is a Self-interpretation 58. First Reply: Self vs Persona 59. Second Reply: Pluralist realism about Self-knowledge 60. Introspection is a Bad Method of Self-discovery 61. The Objective Stance is an Incomplete Method of Self-discovery 62. Pleasure as Self-discovery 63. John Stuart Mill s Autobiography 64. Edmund Gosse s Father and Son 65. Lessons from Mill and Gosse 66. Asceticism 67. Enlistment as Self-discovery 68. Solitude as Self-discovery 69. Asceticism as Self-discovery 70. Pluralist Realism about Self-knowledge 71. Self-knowledge and Self-realization 72. Autobiography and Self-knowledge 73. Routemap 5: Against Narrative, for Self-realization 74. Objection: What about You? Works Cited Index