According to korsgaard, all agency, rational or not, is selfconstitution. Agency, identity, and integrity, christine korsgaard. Kor s g a a rd 1 1 great clarendon street, oxford ox2 6dp oxford university press is a department of the university of oxford. Selfconstitution this page intentionally left blank selfconstitution agency, identity, and integrity chr i s t i n e m. 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. In selfconstitution, christine korsgaard continues to pursue a neokantian project that attempts to ground. Agency, identity, and integrity find, read and cite all the research you need. Agency, identity, and integrity is a philosophical book by christine korsgaard, in which the author sets out to demonstrate how people. This book presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral. Pdf accepted manuscript requires a pdf viewer such as gsview.
Agency and identity necessitation acts and actions aristotle and kant agency and practical identity the metaphysics of normativity. Agency, identity, and integrity the constitution of agency. Elijah millgram 2011 australasian journal of philosophy 89 3. 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, identity, and integrity oxford scholarship. 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. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Selfconstitution agency, identity, and integrity christine m.
On the basis of that theory, she argues that only morally good action can serve the function of action, which is selfconstitution. A good action is one that constitutes its agent as the autonomous and efficacious cause of her own movements. The way she attempts to tackle this issue is crucial for the assessment of the books merits. An original theory of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation.