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Narrative Ethics. Narrative ethics scholarship offers further elaboration and contextualization of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ foundational but cursory assessments of ‘the work of narrative’ in manic- depressive storytelling. It illuminates with the ramifying impress of critical inquiry the intricate webs of ethical and moral imperatives, socio-linguistic schemata, and cultural and political geographies that direct and (ultimately) freight narrative practice of all persuasions in mental health domains. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (2002) text, On Stories, extols the virtues of storytelling and narrative practice in modern cultures and outlines the central suppositions of narrative ethics and theory, beginning with the core assertion that: “Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for while food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living. They are what make our condition human” (p. 3).
Narrative Ethics. Related to virtue ethics, the discipline of narrative ethics also concerns itself with the cultivation of character and the pursuit of the virtues. However, those who practice narrative ethics are particularly interested in the conversation between moral philosophy and literary analysis, the relationship between particular texts of narrative fiction and the 25 He writes: “The virtues therefore are to be understood as those dispositions which will not only sustain practices and enable us to achieve the goods internal to practices, but which will also sustain us in the relevant kind of quest for the good, by enabling us to overcome the ▇▇▇▇▇, dangers, temptations and distractions which we encounter, and which will furnish us with increasing self-knowledge and increasing knowledge of the good” (ibid., 219). 26 He grants, however, that one need not accept the limitations of such communities: “Without those moral particularities to begin from there would never be anywhere to begin; but it is in moving forward from such particularity that the search for the good, for the universal, consists” (ibid., 221). virtues they endorse and cultivate. Thus, narrative ethics shares with virtue ethics the notion that narrative holds a fundamental role in shaping one’s character, though it is specifically interested in narrative as a literary genre, not simply as the stories individuals or communities tell about themselves.27