What is a Life?

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-06-29 DOI:10.1353/phl.2021.0014

Brett Bourbon

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Abstract

Abstract:In this essay, I argue that despite what philosophers often assume, a life is neither an action nor the summation of a series of actions. If life is not itself an action, then life has no end or point that is like that of an action, and thus, a life cannot be judged or evaluated in the way we can judge or evaluate an action. This puts pressure on various assumptions about life and ethical reasoning in the philosophy of action, ethics, and literary studies, and leads to a different understanding of ethics.

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什么是生活?

摘要：在这篇文章中，我认为，尽管哲学家们经常假设，生活既不是一个行动，也不是一系列行动的总和。如果生命本身不是一个行动，那么生命就没有像行动那样的终点或点，因此，不能用我们判断或评估行动的方式来判断或评估生命。这给行动哲学、伦理学和文学研究中关于生活和伦理推理的各种假设带来了压力，并导致了对伦理学的不同理解。

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期刊介绍： For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.