Abstract:Our moral lives are replete with acts of autobiographical storytelling. The stories we tell are intended to help others understand what we do by helping them understand "who we are" in a practical or normative sense. The act of addressing one's stories to an audience, however, is as likely to destabilize as it is to confirm one's understanding of who one is. Drawing on themes in Wally Lamb's novel I Know This Much Is True, I offer a dialogical account of narrative self-transformation, and articulate a conception of forgiveness understood as compassionate acceptance of ourselves (and others) as fallible self-narrators.

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我们认为我们是谁？

摘要：我们的道德生活充满了自传式讲故事的行为。我们讲述的故事旨在通过帮助他人从实践或规范意义上理解“我们是谁”来帮助他们理解我们所做的事情。然而，向观众讲述一个人的故事的行为可能会破坏稳定，因为它会确认一个人对自己是谁的理解。借鉴沃利·兰姆 (Wally Lamb) 的小说《我知道这一切都是真的》(I Know This Much Is True) 中的主题，我提供了叙事自我转变的对话式描述，并阐明了宽恕的概念，理解为同情地接受我们自己（和他人）作为易犯错误的自我叙述者。