As Luck Would Have It: Thomas Hardy's Bildungsroman on Leading a Human Life

作者：Laverty Megan Jane^*

来源：Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2014, 33(6): 635-646.

DOI：10.1007/s11217-014-9408-5

• Bildung
• Bildungsroman
• Brendan Boyle
• Education
• Thomas hardy
• Moral luck

In this essay, I demonstrate the value of the Bildungsroman for philosophy of education on the grounds that these narratives raise and explore educational questions. I focus on a short story in the Bildungsroman tradition, Thomas Hardy's "A Mere Interlude". This story describes the maturation of its heroine by narrating a series of events that transform her understanding of what it means to lead a human life. I connect her conceptual shift with two paradigms for leading a human life. One stresses the exercise of distinct human capacities like agency and autonomy, whereas the other stresses human vulnerability to fate or moral luck. I conclude by offering important reasons for educators to adopt the later paradigm over the former.

• 出版日期2014-11
• 单位南宁师范大学