选择被改变:启示、身份和自我转变的伦理

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS
Paddy McQueen
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一个人应该如何决定是否要经历一段改变自己的经历?在她对“变革经验”的讨论中,L. A. Paul认为,要在首先进行个人考虑时做出理性选择,一个人应该基于“启示”做出决定,即发现经验将会是什么样子。如果这一解决方案被视为做出变革选择的唯一手段,那么我认为它是有问题的。这是因为:(1)它忽视了一个人在做出重大人生决定时实际身份应该发挥的作用;(ii)它忽视了与道德相关的行动理由。即使我们保留启示方法,认为它只是做出变革选择的一部分手段,我认为启示在我们的决策中应该很少有分量。与其关注未来体验的主观品质,还不如反思自己是谁,以及自己认可的实际身份要求自己做什么。
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Choosing to be changed: Revelation, identity and the ethics of self-transformation
How one should decide whether to undergo an experience that changes who one is? In her discussion of “transformative experiences”, L. A. Paul argues that, to choose rationally when deliberating first-personally, one should base one’s decision on “revelation”, i.e. to discover out what the experience will be like. If this solution is taken as the sole means by which a transformative choice is made, then I argue it is problematic. This is because (i) it overlooks the role that one’s practical identity ought to play when making a major life-decision; and (ii) it ignores morally-relevant reasons for action. Even if we retain the revelation approach as only part of the means through which a transformative choice is made, I argue that revelation should frequently carry little weight in our decision-making. Rather than focusing on the subjective quality of future experiences, it is often preferable to reflect on who one is and what one’s endorsed practical identity commits one to.
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