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Being Moved: Heideggerian Authenticity and Wolf's Nameless Virtue

Gray, David
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Susan Wolf proposes that there is a virtue of character we all dimly recognize but cannot put a name to, a virtue that involves living with an expectation and a willingness to take responsibility for more than what one is rationally on the hook for. For Wolf, recognizing this virtue helps explain why we should feel moved to offer up our time and resources to help resolve the problems we become entangled with by accident. In this thesis, I argue that her account of the nameless virtue does not go far enough and thus does not do justice to her “irrationalist” impulse but that we can look to Heideggerian authenticity in order to make the requisite changes while preserving her core sentiment. So, I present an interpretation of authenticity that focuses on reticence, anticipation, and resoluteness in order to develop a better model for assessing her moral luck cases.

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2022-07-01
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Authenticity, Martin Heidegger, Moral luck, Nameless virtue, Reticence, Susan Wolf
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Gray, David. "Being Moved: Heideggerian Authenticity and Wolf's Nameless Virtue." 2022. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/29298847
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2022-05-21
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