All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee to reveal a whole domain of life narrative that has been previously ignored, one that enables a new approach to the question of what constitutes a "good"...
All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in ...
