Function and Self-Constitution: How to make something of yourself without being all that you can be. A commentary on Christine Korsgaard's The Constitution of Agency and Self-Constitution

摘要

‘The function of action is self-constitution.’ If the main theme of ChristinenKorsgaard’s The Constitution of Agency (CA) and Self-Constitution (SC)nwere to be distilled into a pithy slogan, this would be an excellent candidate.n1nNo mere slogan can begin to do justice to the wealth of subtle ideas and thengrandness of vision animating these two books, though. The aim is nothingnless than a defence of the Enlightenment idea that a morality of respect fornpersons can be vindicated as a requirement of rationality.