TY - JOUR
TI - Towards a Good Life: Personal Documents in the Moral Space (on Dziennik by Jan Józef Szczepański)
AU - Spiechowicz, Anna
TI - Towards a Good Life: Personal Documents in the Moral Space (on Dziennik by Jan Józef Szczepański)
AB - The article discusses personal documents through the lens of ethics. The argument focuses on Dziennik [Journal] by Jan Józef Szczepański, which is analyzed primarily with the use of Charles Taylor’s deliberations on ethics and subjectivity and David Parker’s study of ethical interpretations of autobiographical literature. The discussion presented in the article is based on several key concepts, including “constitutive good,” “strong evaluations,” “moral space,” “qualitative differentiations,” “conceptual framework.” The author seeks to answer the question of whether – and if so, how – a journal, in particular Szczepański’s Dziennik, may constitute an act of building identity and establishing subjectivity and how it articulates constitutive good and reveals the roots of morality. The article is also an attempt to demonstrate the necessity to adopt an ethical perspective in literary research (with particular emphasis on autobiographical literature) in the “secular age.”
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 18 Issue 1
PY - 2021
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 107
EP - 129
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.21.008.13538
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/w-strone-dobrego-zycia-dokument-osobisty-w-przestrzeni-moralnej-o-dzienniku-jana-jozefa-szczepanskiego
KW - subjectivity
KW - journal
KW - ethics
KW - personal document
KW - secular age
KW - constitutive good
KW - autobiographical narratives
KW - Charles Taylor
KW - David Parker
KW - Jan Józef Szczepański