Abstract The purpose of this paper is to defend a deflationary account of the ethical value of narrative representation. In sections 1 and 2 I demonstrate that there is a necessary relation between narrative representation and ethical value, but not between narrative representation and moral value. Ethical is conceived in terms of moral as opposed to amoral and moral in terms of moral as opposed to immoral and the essential value of narrative representation is restricted to the former. Recently, both theorists involved in the ethical turn in criticism and analytic philosophers have erred in conflating these two distinct kinds of value. In sections 3 to 5 I defend my deflationary view against three attempts to elevate the ethical value of narrative representation to moral value: Martha Nussbaum’s theory of realist novels, Noël Carroll’s virtue wheels, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s closural moral order.

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叙事表征的伦理价值

摘要本文的目的是捍卫对叙述性陈述的伦理价值的通缩描述。在第一节和第二节中，我证明了叙事表征与道德价值之间存在必然的联系，但叙事表征与道德价值之间没有必然联系。道德是从道德而不是道德的角度来构思的，而道德是在道德而不是不道德的道德方面来的，而叙事表现的本质价值则仅限于前者。最近，参与批评的伦理转向的理论家和分析哲学家都将这两种截然不同的价值混为一谈。在第3至第5节中，我为通缩观点辩护，以防止将叙事表示的伦理价值提升为道德价值的三种尝试：玛莎·努斯鲍姆的写实小说理论，