The Dual Shaping of Classical Ethical Temporal Narrative——On Self-Identity and the Polis Community

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10.2991/978-2-38476-577-5_20How to use a DOI?

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Dual-Shaping; Temporal Narrative; Self-Identity; Poetic Justice; Polis Community

Abstract

All speculation echoes with classical, ethical, and aesthetic resonances. Within the contemporary context of narrative fragmentation, media acceleration, and temporal alienation, the order of things vibrates in dynamic spatio-temporal networks, resonating with perception, signs, and negotiated meaning. Confronting existence and power, the choice to live entails two paths: Firstly, temporal experience constitutes being. It involves a value-oriented turn concerned with the individual psyche and communal interpretation, extending the moral and emotional fugue on constancy and flux from Plato to Nussbaum. Within history, language, and the Other, it addresses the uncertainty of existence to construct meaning, identity, and ethical responsibility. Secondly, it utilizes temporal narrative to shape the relationship between individual and community. With the real material force of literary-political intervention, it reveals the mechanisms of ideology and social power operations. Through material, institutional, artistic, and aesthetic experiential events, it participates in shaping social consensus, affective experience, and the perceptual inscription of an ethical atmosphere in reality. At the intersection and tension of these two paths, the dual-shaping function of temporal narrative as material practice resists the crisis of multimedia disintegration and the problem of materialized affect. It confronts the real transformation of contemporary will within the micropolitics of everyday life, aiming to liberate and pursue a spirit of justice and utopia that traverses past and present, transcending the immediate now.

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