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Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity
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Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity

Christine M. Korsgaard

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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
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?

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Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity by Christine M. Korsgaard. ISBN 9780199552801. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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