Case Studies of the Story of One’s Own Life
摘要
The point of departure for the considerations in this chapter is provided by Isaiah Berlin’s words: “there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathizing with and deriving light from each other. […] Forms of life differ. Ends, moral principles, are many”. This implies that accepting human diversity and its individual manifestations reveals the possibility of conflicts or tensions—both in interpersonal relations, thus in the sphere of collective identity, and in terms of the individual’s own identity.