Morality, Good Life, and Selflessness

Abstract

An attempt is made in this paper to assess the relationship between morality and human life. This is argued that such an assessment requires a change in perspective from right conduct that is pervasive in the large part of liberal moral theory, to good life. This is only such a perspective change that makes the transfiguration of morality within human life of narrative unity and integrity possible. The perspective of good life is proposed to be based on the adoption of a higher order attitudinal stance ± the stance of selflessness. The argument begins with the perspective of right conduct in order to prove its inadequacies and secondly the perspective of good life is put forth to show that the object of morality is the whole human life ± life in its full unity.