Self-constitution
Subtitle: agency, identity, and integrity
By: Christine M. Korsgaard.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199552801; 9780199552795
Subjects: Ethics; Practical reason; Act (Philosophy); Agent (Philosophy)
Description: Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation, based on a new theory of action and interaction. She proposes that the function of an action is to constitute the agency and therefore the identity of the person who does it, and that only morally good action can serve this function.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agency and identity; title: Necessitation; title: Acts and actions; title: Aristotle and Kant; title: Agency and practical identity; title: The metaphysics of normativity; title: Constitutive standards; title: The constitution of life; title: In defense of teleology; title: The paradox of self-constitution; title: Formal and substantive principles of reason; title: Formal versus substantive; title: Testing versus weighing; title: Maximizing and prudence; title: Practical reason and the unity of the will; title: The empiricist account of normativity; title: The rationalist account of normativity; title: Kant on the hypothetical imperative; title: Against particularistic willing; title: Deciding and predicting; title: Autonomy and efficacy; title: The function of action; title: The possibility of agency; title: Non-rational action; title: Action; title: Attribution; title: The psychology of action; title: Expulsion from the garden : the transition to humanity; title: Instinct, emotion, intelligence, and reason; title: The parts of the soul; title: Inside or outside; title: Pull yourself together; title: The constitutional model; title: Models of the soul; title: The city and the soul; title: Platonic virtues; title: Justice : substantive, procedural, and platonic; title: Kant and the constitutional model; title: Defective action; title: The problem of bad action; title: Being governed by the wrong law; title: Or five bad constitutions; title: Conceptions of evil; title: Degrees of action; title: Integrity and interaction; title: Deciding to be bad; title: The ordinary cases; title: Dealing with the disunified; title: Kant's theory of interaction; title: My reasons; title: Deciding to treat someone as an end in himself; title: Interacting with yourself; title: How to be a person; title: What's left of me?