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

Author/creator Korsgaard, Christine M.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.
LCCN 2009002157
ISBN9780199552801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780199552795 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0199552800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0199552797 (hardback : alk. paper)