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The Importance of How We See Ourselves - Self-Identity and Responsible Agency (Hardcover, New)
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The Importance of How We See Ourselves - Self-Identity and Responsible Agency (Hardcover, New)
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The past fifteen years have seen a wellspring of interest in the
concept and practical nature of the self. Questions about the
metaphysics of personal identity have preoccupied philosophical
scholarship. Less attention has been paid to the topic of the self
from the first-person standpoint, the point of view of a person who
regards certain phenomena as distinctive of and essential to her
identity. Nor has much attention been paid to how this concept of
the self is related to responsible agency. This book argues that a
person's self-conception affects her status as a responsible agent.
(1) The book develops a hybrid view of the self as the object of
self-consciousness that is the subject and owner of the events that
occur by means of its agency. Agents have unique identities as
particular beings, and identify themselves distinctively. (2) The
book argues that a healthy, veridical sense of self grounds
responsible agency by enabling persons to be aware of what they do
and to understand their motives. Certain pathologies upset the
unity of a person's identity, while others impair the lucidity of a
person's sense of self, and still others disturb general features
of responsible agency such as the capacity to act purposively and
realize one's will through intentional behavior. The book explains
what it means to be oneself, and what departures from this state
signify for a person's ability to navigate life and make sense of
himself in the process. The notion of acting out of character-of
failing to be oneself in some noteworthy way-is relevant to a
person's culpability because an individual's self-conception
affects his status as an accountable agent. (3) To explain this,
the book defends an account of responsible agency. Responsible
persons are accountable, alert to normative reasons in support of
or in opposition to their behavior and able to respond to reasons
for action bearing normative force because these reasons have
normative force. Accountable persons are unified agents, a status
that calls for an admi
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