This book presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral. Life in the city is a mixed bag for download selfconstitution. Connects contemporary debate about agency to its historical roots in plato, aristotle, and kant. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Agency, identity, and integrity oxford scholarship. Drawing on the work of plato, aristotle, and kant, the book proposes that the function of an action is to constitute the agency and therefore the identity of the person who does it. Agency and identity necessitation acts and actions aristotle and kant agency and practical identity the metaphysics of normativity. Pdf accepted manuscript requires a pdf viewer such as gsview. An original theory of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Korsgaard, 0191569674, 9780191569678, oxford university press, 2009. Agency, identity, and integrity 2009 oxford university press, 2009. Agency, identity, and integrity, christine korsgaard.
Selfconstitution this page intentionally left blank selfconstitution agency, identity, and integrity chr i s t i n e m. Agency, identity, and integrity find, read and cite all the research you need. Selfconstitution agency, identity, and integrity christine m. The way she attempts to tackle this issue is crucial for the assessment of the books merits. In selfconstitution, christine korsgaard continues to pursue a neokantian project that attempts to ground. 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 selfconstitution formal and substantive principles of reason formal versus substantive testing versus weighing. According to korsgaard, all agency, rational or not, is selfconstitution. Korsgaard develops a theory of action and of interaction, and of the form interaction must take if we are to have the integrity that, she argues, is essential for agency. A good action is one that constitutes its agent as the autonomous and efficacious cause of her own movements. On the basis of that theory, she argues that only morally good action can serve the function of action, which is selfconstitution. Agency, identity, and integrity the constitution of agency.
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