Self-Constitution Agency, Identity, and Integrity

Name: Self-Constitution Agency, Identity, and Integrity
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ISBN: 9780199552801

ISBN-10: 0199552800

ISBN-13: 9780199552801

Edition: 2009

Authors: Christine M. Korsgaard

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Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong. Few moral philosophers, however, have exploited the idea that actions might be morally good or bad in virtue of being good or bad of their kind - good or bad as actions. Just as we need to know that it is the function of theheart to pump blood to know that a good heart is one that pumps blood successfully, so we need to know what the function of an action is in order to know what counts as a good or bad action. Drawing on the work of…

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Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works


Preface



Agency and Identity



Necessitation



Acts and Actions



Aristotle and Kant



Agency and Practical Identity



The Metaphysics of Normativity



Constitutive Standards



The Constitution of Life



In Defense of Teleology



The Paradox of Self-Constitution



Formal and Substantive Principles of Reason



Formal versus Substantive



Testing versus Weighing



Maximizing and Prudence



Practical Reason and the Unity of the Will



The Empiricist Account of Normativity



The Rationalist Account of Normativity



Kant on the Hypothetical Imperative



Against Particularistic Willing



Deciding and Predicting



Autonomy and Efficacy



The Function of Action



The Possibility of Agency



Non-Rational Action



Action



Attribution



The Psychology of Action



Expulsion from the Garden: The Transition to Humanity



Instinct, Emotion, Intelligence, and Reason



The Parts of the Soul



Inside or Outside?



Pull Yourself Together



The Constitutional Model



Two Models of the Soul



The City and the Soul



Platonic Virtues



Justice: Substantive, Procedural, and Platonic



Kant and the Constitutional Model



Defective Action



The Problem of Bad Action



Being Governed by the Wrong Law



Four or Five Bad Constitutions



Conceptions of Evil



Degrees of Action



Integrity and Interaction



Deciding to be Bad



The Ordinary Cases



Dealing with the Disunified



Kant's Theory of Interaction



My Reasons



Deciding to Treat Someone as an End in Himself



Interacting with Yourself



How to be a Person



What's Left of Me?



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index