“Try to Be Loved & Not-Admired”: Lily Bart’s Moral Struggle

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Try to Be Loved & Not-Admired”: Lily Bart’s Moral Struggle

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter examines the tension between admiration and love in the domain of personal relationships from the perspective of the person who is admired or loved. I show that it is possible for a person to affect which of these responses she evokes, and that, for some people, admiration presents a powerful temptation that can become a life strategy of avoiding love, compassion and full recognition. Building on Stanley Cavell’s study of the opening scene of King Lear, I claim that shame about one’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities can lead to trading love for admiration and to the danger of disastrous consequences not only for one’s relationships but for one’s life as a whole. My interpretation of Lily Bart’s story from Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth furthers Cavell’s point in that it elaborates on the moral aspects of such a life strategy. Lily’s moral struggle ends with a profound transformation in which she accepts love, thereby accepting her more genuine moral self. I thus interpret Wittgenstein’s “Try to be loved &amp; not-admired” as a moral warning.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Try to Be Loved & Not-Admired”: Lily Bart’s Moral Struggle

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter examines the tension between admiration and love in the domain of personal relationships from the perspective of the person who is admired or loved. I show that it is possible for a person to affect which of these responses she evokes, and that, for some people, admiration presents a powerful temptation that can become a life strategy of avoiding love, compassion and full recognition. Building on Stanley Cavell’s study of the opening scene of King Lear, I claim that shame about one’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities can lead to trading love for admiration and to the danger of disastrous consequences not only for one’s relationships but for one’s life as a whole. My interpretation of Lily Bart’s story from Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth furthers Cavell’s point in that it elaborates on the moral aspects of such a life strategy. Lily’s moral struggle ends with a profound transformation in which she accepts love, thereby accepting her more genuine moral self. I thus interpret Wittgenstein’s “Try to be loved &amp; not-admired” as a moral warning.

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C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centrum pro etiku</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Ethical Inquiries after Wittgenstein

ISBN

978-3-030-98083-2

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

49-62

Počet stran knihy

268

Název nakladatele

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Místo vydání

Cham

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