The Senses of an Ending

Behrendt, Kathy

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694433.003.0013

Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self 2015

DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694433.003.0013

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The Senses of an Ending

Kathy Behrendt¹

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“…This article is an offshoot of a larger project in which I investigate a wide variety of end‐related terms and concepts involved in narrative views of the self, with a view to assessing the importance, or lack thereof, of endings within those views. See Behrendt forthcoming.…”

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Whole Lives and Good Deaths

Behrendt

2014

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This article discusses two views associated with narrative conceptions of the self. The first view asserts that our whole life is reasonably regarded as a single unit of meaning. A prominent strand of the philosophical narrative account of the self is the representative of this view. The second view-which has currency beyond the confines of the philosophical narrative account-is that the meaning of a life story is dependent on what happens at the end of it. The article argues that the connection between these two views is more tentative than often supposed: philosophical narrativists that see life as a single unit of value and meaning nonetheless provide grounds for arguing that the end of life is not the best and may be a particularly bad time to approach and intervene in the matter of how well one's life as a whole has gone.

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