GROPING IN THE LIGHT

Even though Fisher's (1995) own 'solution' to the alleged problems bro ught on by social constructionism in regard to the self is questionabl e in that positing internal causes leads to much the same moral impass e as those more external formulations he seeks to critize, it is never theless of value both to call attention to the limits of the movement and to imagine alternatives that might better allow human agency and m oral responsibility into their reach. He is therefore to be commended for thinking against the grain as well as for following his apparent i ntuition that there may be more to selfhood and moral life than the co nventional wisdom would indicate. After having drawn out the implicati ons of this intuition, some direction is provided for thinking about m oral life in a manner different from the social constructionists and f rom Fisher himself.