The core argument of the paper is that the modern philosophical notion of self-constitution is directed against the prospect of human beings dissolving into idleness. Arguments for self-constitution are marked by non-philosophical presuppositions about the value of usefulness. Those arguments also assume a particular conception of superior experience as conscious integration of a person’s actions within an identifiable set of chosen commitments. Exploring particular arguments by Hegel, Kant, Korsgaard and Frankfurt the paper claims that those arguments are problematic in the various ways in which they suppose usefulness and explicitly or implicitly take extra-philosophical views of idleness
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I argue that, for Kant, there is a point at which the notions of self-consciousness and self-limitat...
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I offer a prolegomenon to the philosophical study of a uniquely human activity—the self-binding act....
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This Independent Study thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter What Seems Valuable ...
Philosophy has a dirty little secret and it is this: a whole lot of philosophers have swallowed the ...
grantor: University of TorontoIn this thesis I pursue two major goals. I develop an accoun...
My dissertation investigates the significance of habit for our selfhood, our experience of the world...
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This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as durati...
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