The Ethical Value of Narrative Representation

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R. McGregor
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to defend a deflationary account of the ethical value of narrative representation. In sections 1 and 2 I demonstrate that there is a necessary relation between narrative representation and ethical value, but not between narrative representation and moral value. Ethical is conceived in terms of moral as opposed to amoral and moral in terms of moral as opposed to immoral and the essential value of narrative representation is restricted to the former. Recently, both theorists involved in the ethical turn in criticism and analytic philosophers have erred in conflating these two distinct kinds of value. In sections 3 to 5 I defend my deflationary view against three attempts to elevate the ethical value of narrative representation to moral value: Martha Nussbaum’s theory of realist novels, Noël Carroll’s virtue wheels, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s closural moral order.
叙事再现的伦理价值
摘要本文的目的是为叙事表征的伦理价值的通货紧缩辩护。在第1节和第2节中,我论证了叙事表征与伦理价值之间存在着必要的关系,而叙事表征与道德价值之间没有关系。伦理是根据道德而非非道德来构思的,道德是根据道德与非道德来构想的,叙事表征的本质价值仅限于前者。最近,无论是参与批评伦理转向的理论家还是分析哲学家,都错误地将这两种截然不同的价值混为一谈。在第3至第5节中,我为我的通货紧缩观点辩护,反对三种将叙事表征的伦理价值提升为道德价值的尝试:玛莎·努斯鲍姆的现实主义小说理论、诺埃尔·卡罗尔的美德之轮和杰弗里·加尔特·哈珀姆的封闭道德秩序。
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