Artikel
Sophie von La Roche, Shaftesbury and the problem of virtue : inheritance and self-creation in "Die Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim"
Verfasst von:
Griffiths, Elystan
info
in:
Forum for modern language studies
Oxford:
2014
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82 - 96 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Griffiths, Elystan info |
| In: | Forum for modern language studies |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| The article proposes that Sophie von La Roche's Die Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim can be productively read in the light of the ‘Moral Sense’ theory of Shaftesbury. I argue that the novel's conception of ‘Eigenliebe’ is better understood as Shaftesbury's ‘self-affections’, rather than in Rousseauian terms. A careful reading of Shaftesbury shows that the sense of virtue is not simply instinctive or natural, but a natural human predisposition that requires careful refinement and management in a conscious and imaginative process of reflection. Sophie von Sternheim combines emotion and reflection in her moral life, a moral life which is represented as a writing process that involves dialogue and vision. Thus La Roche fashions a protagonist who is anything but passive or meekly good, and is, rather, dynamic, creative and heroic. | |
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