...a context of aims and cognitions. As Maclntyre puts it: 'I can only answer the question "What am 1 to do?" if I can answer the prior question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?"' (Maclntyre 1981: 216) Ethical questions can only be answered against the backdrop of a cultural...

...market-produced images, is a crisis of moral and cultural paralysis. Alasdair Maclntyre has written, "I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"1' Praxis — that is, human culture-forming, ethical behavior in daily life — is narratively...

...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 have...

...for understanding the actions of others.' Narrative is thus central to understanding human action: 'I can only answer the question "What am I to do?"...question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part"' (Maclntyre, 1985: 212, 216). Indeed, the importance of narrative is such that it has been claimed...

...good for one who inhabits these roles ... 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?"24 Like Sandel, Maclntyre's argument against 'liberal individualism' rests on this claim that...

...become the autobiographical narratives by which we 'tell about' our lives," and Maclntyre holds that "I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?'...question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"4 The plurality of narratives to which Bruner and Maclntyre allude is essential: because we...

...structure understandings of the world, and negotiate meaning. Alisdair Maclntyre, for example, writes, "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...

...that not only is ethics traditionbound, but that rationality itself is narrative-dependent, 63 since 'I can only answer the question "What am I to do?"...question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?"' 64 However, besides this notion of narrative (or tradition) as 'a socially embodied narrative,...

...science of variables'. Maclntyre (l984: 2l6l similarly says, 'I can only answer the question "What am l to do?" if I can answer the prior question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a pait?" ' Several observers have noted that narrative is an ancient method and perhaps our most fundamental...

...and co-author. We live under constraints, with each of our dramas exerting constraints on the others. I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'of which story or stories do I find myself a part?' My narrative selfhood is correlative. I am accountable...