Existential Autonomy and Authenticity
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Synposis: The goal of this book is to show that key ideas about the nature of selves and responsibility for character in the existential tradition can be reconstructed and defended with the kind of hierarchical theory of personal autonomy proposed by Harry Frankfurt, Gerald Dworkin, and since developed by many others. But to solve the regress problem with hierarchical analyses of autonomy, while maintaining important distinctions between levels of agent-authority, requires that the concepts of “higher-order will” and “caring” be reinterpreted as a distinctive kind of motive-process unlike typical desires – a motivation actively generated and sustained by the agent in light of apparent values worthy of devotion (which I call “projective motivation”). In addition, the famous problem of manipulation cannot be solved without both recognizing natural sources of the capacities employed in forming cares and identity-defining commitments that are responsive to the world, and accepting leeway-libertarian freedom at the level of our deepest projects, life-goals, and personal ideals (or “highest-order will”). These themes from the existential tradition and from hierarchical accounts of autonomy in analytic moral psychology shed light on each other, together providing the resources for a coherent and demanding account of responsibility for one’s character or practical identity.
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