Choose a passage from the McIntyre reading that describes a particular aspect of persons as the subject of a narrative. Quote the passage, explain it, and tell a specific, personal, life experience that illustrates its significance with respect to identity (your identity).
In the passage the main focus is how the author believes that in order for social structure to continue people have to give different perceptive. For example, movies follow this in a way because it gives the person a narrative view upon the protagonist. According to Alasdair MacIntyre, the subject of a narrative holds your actions as an individual from birth to death accountable, and with this process you live a narratable life. In other words as human beings we have a tendency to live life as though we are telling and narrating our own stories. MacIntyre writes; “like characters in a fictional narrative we do not know what will happen next, but none the less, our lives have a certain form which projects itself towards our future”(333) Which means that unpredictability coexist as a part of our life. We do not know what will happen later on in our lives, however, as human beings we still hope and make decisions in the present as if we can already assume what is going to happen in the future. This creates us our “dream life” pr what we wish to strive for. MacIntrye goes on to explain,“man is essentially a storytelling animal…personal identity is just that identity presupposed by the unity of the character which the unity of the narrative requires.” As humans to society, our stories must utilize our narrative among others, and have accountability what has happened in our lives and how we choose to tell and expose them. MacIntyre believes that selfhood is correlative and that “we are not accountable, we are the ones who can always ask other for an account, who can put others to the question. We are a part of their story, as they are a part of ours.”
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Tania Punzo 