Research Catalog

Title

Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity / Christine M. Korsgaard.

Author

Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 230 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Practical reason
• Agent (Philosophy)
• Ethik
• Identiteitsbeginsel
• Handlung
• Selbst
• Ethics
• Responsibility
• Praktische Vernunft
• Autonomie (algemeen)
• Menselijk handelen
• Act (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Contents

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 -- 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?

Call Number

JFE 16-13309

ISBN

• 9780199552801
• 9780199552795
• 0199552800
• 0199552797

LCCN

• 2009002157
• 9780199552801

OCLC

251213358

Author

Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion)

Title

Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity / Christine M. Korsgaard.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: HARVARD UNIV. PRESENTS AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOUNDATION OF PRACTICAL REASON & MORAL OBLIGATION.

Other Standard Identifier

9780199552801

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13309