PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Roland Barthes, Mimesis
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Baudrillard"s mediatized culture of depthless simulation which abandons reference to historical reality (irreference) Fractured discursive practices about truth, identity, and the good. Ethics, according to ricoeur, is the link between happiness and virtue. A strict scientific, de-narrativized view leads to collapse. Compare personal identity to an episode of romantic love. There must be a beginning, a middle, and an end. There must be a poetic element, something to elevate it above the mundane. A long-term romantic relationship integrates widely different tasks, such as family relations, business, child-rearing, sexuality, meaning synthesis of the heterogeneous. Aristotle"s ethics sandbox: narrative mythos and mimesis. Kearney claims that kant"s account of moral responsibility relies on narrative as much as aristotle"s. Hannah arendt, a well-known kantian, emphasizes the communicative nature of narrative where someone says something to someone about something contrast to roland barthes with the death of the author.
