...impasse—in the full panoply of human behavior. As contemporary philosopher Alasdair Maclntyre writes, "I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?' " Narrative thus not only becomes a legitimate source for philosophical comment but presents...

...essentially a story-telling animal. . . . But the key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'" Narratives, that is to say, do not just describe or reflect, but rather define and give meaning...

...teller of stories that aspire to truth. But the key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question "What am I to do?"...question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?" We enter human society, that is, with one or more imputed characters — roles into which we...

...when we speak of our minds we enter the world of poetry. Discourse as Structure: Narrative Reality I can only answer the question What am I to do? if...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?' . . . Mythology ... is at the heart of things. Alasdair Maclntyre, Beyond Virtue Imagine yourself...

...actions, it also reinforces the schema through which she will make future decisions. Maclntyre explained: I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?' We enter human society, that is, with one or more imputed characters - roles into which we have...

...ourselves within the stories is one of the means by which we construct ourselves. As Maclntyre puts it: 'I can only answer the question "What am I to do?"...question, "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'" (l98l: 2l6). In several different perspectives on the person, the role of internal dialogue...

...284. 3. Gerald Bnms, Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 199. "if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"4 After all, MacIntyre explains, "only in fantasy do we live what story we please. In life,...

...ethnographic report of Marianne George (1995). 29. "I can only answer the question, 'What am I do to?' if I can answer the prior question, 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'" (Maclntyre 1984:216). 30. The original source of the usage was The Three Essays toward a Theory...

...that the very notion of a moral obligation assumes a narrative past. According to Alasdair Maclntyre, "I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"237 David Luban adds that even when we argue consequentially, "the consequences we seek are...

...practical importance, is always a potentially misleading abstraction."25 It is misleading, he says, because "I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?' "26 Many of us would agree that long-term decisions about such things as one's career, lifestyle,...