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Suffering and Misery in History is Not a Tragic Story: The Ethical Education of Seeing Differences between NarrativesJournal of Curriculum Studies. 2024.This article brings out ethical aspects arising in Plato’s classical critique of narrative and imitative art in The Republic, especially when it comes to reading stories about the past. Socrates’s and Glaucon’s most important suggestion, I argue, is to cultivate an ethical consciousness where one ought to see the distinctions between how the real and the imaginary in narratives are to be conceived, and what that insight ethically demands of the reader. Taken as an ethical insight for the reader …Read more
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On Some Moral Implications of Linguistic Narrativism TheoryDe Ethica 6 (1): 75-91. 2020.In this essay we consider the moral claims of one branch of non-realist theory known as linguistic narrativism theory. By highlighting the moral implications of linguistic narrativism theory, we argue that the “moral vision” expressed by this theory can entail, at worst, undesirable moral agnosticism if not related to a transcendental and supra-personal normativity in our moral life. With its appeal to volitionism and intuitionism, the ethical sensitivity of this theory enters into difficulties …Read more
Turku, Finland
Areas of Specialization
Hermeneutics |
Philosophy of History |
Existentialism |
Personal Identity and Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Anthropology |