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020 $a9780190639488$q(hardback)
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020 $z9780190639501$q(epub)
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050 00 $aBD373$b.C35 2018
082 00 $a116$223
100 1 $aCallard, Agnes,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAspiration :$bthe agency of becoming /$cAgnes Callard.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axiii, 287 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index.
505 0 $aSection I : Practical Rationality -- Decision Theory and Transformative Choice -- Proleptic Reasons -- Section II : Moral Psychology -- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conflict – Akrasia -- Section III : Moral Responsibility -- The Problem of Self-Creation -- Self-Creation and Responsibility.
520 $aBecoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a passion for music or politics. How can such activity be rational, if the reason for engaging in the relevant pursuit is only available to the person one will become? How is it psychologically possible to feel the attraction of a form of concern that is not yet one's own? How can the work done to arrive at the finish line be ascribed to one who doesn't (really) know what one is doing, or why one is doing it? In Aspiration, Agnes Callard asserts that these questions belong to the theory of aspiration. Aspirants are motivated by proleptic reasons, acknowledged defective versions of the reasons they expect to eventually grasp. The psychology of such a transformation is marked by intrinsic conflict between their old point of view on value and the one they are trying to acquire. They cannot adjudicate this conflict by deliberating or choosing or deciding-rather, they resolve it by working to see the world in a new way. This work has a teleological structure: by modeling oneself on the person he or she is trying to be, the aspirant brings that person into being. Because it is open to us to engage in an activity of self-creation, we are responsible for having become the kinds of people we are. -- ‡c From book jacket.
650 0 $aChange.
650 0 $aBecoming (Philosophy)
650 0 $aPractical reason.
650 0 $aEthics.
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650 7 $aEthics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00915833
650 7 $aPractical reason.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01074530
852 00 $bglx$hBD373$i.C35 2018