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Author Callard, Agnes, author

Title Aspiration : the agency of becoming / Agnes Callard
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
Contents Part I : Practical Rationality -- Decision Theory and Transformative Choice -- Proleptic Reasons -- Part II : Moral Psychology -- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conflict -- Akrasia -- Part III : Moral Responsibility -- The Problem of Self-Creation -- Self-Creation and Responsibility
Summary Aspiration by Agnes Callard locates standing assumptions in the theory of rationality, moral psychology and autonomy that preclude the possibility of working to acquire new values. The book also explains what changes need to be made if we are to make room for this form of agency, which I call aspiration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2018)
Subject Change.
Becoming (Philosophy)
Practical reason.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Becoming (Philosophy)
Change
Ethics
Practical reason
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190639518
0190639512
9780190639495
0190639490
9780190639501
0190639504