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Self-constitution : agency, identity, and integrity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Korsgaard, Christine M. (Christine Marion)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Practical reason.
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Table of 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
  • 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?