Becoming 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 activit
Aspiration: the agency of becoming
โ Scribed by Callard, Agnes
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, NY Oxford University Press 2018.
- ISBN
- 0190639512
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
'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 work also explains what changes need to be made if we are to make room for this form of agency, which I call aspiration.
โฆ Subjects
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