Leading Lives
On Happiness and Narrative Meaning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8113015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johan Brännmark (0000-0001-6123-479X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-343 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0556-8641 • E-ISSN: 1996-8523 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/05568640309485130 |
| OpenAlex | W2050352367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
In contemporary moral philosophy, the standard way of understanding the constituents of the human good is in terms of a fairly limited number of features that contribute to our happiness independently of how they are situated in our lives. Even when this approach is supplemented by Moorean ideas about organic wholes, it still cannot do justice to the deep importance of how things are situated and even when meaning is seen as an important factor, it still tends to be treated as simply another item on the list of constituents. It is argued here that we should abandon this approach in favor of one that recognizes that our lives are best understood in terms of their narrative structure and that treats narrative meaning as a pervasive phenomenon that strongly influences the importance that different features have in making our lives go more or less well
Aesthetics · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Happiness · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Phenomenon · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |