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- Title
Defective Actions and Tyrannical Souls: Korsgaard on Evil.
- Authors
ROSE-BARRY, PETER BRIAN
- Abstract
Christine Korsgaard’s Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity is an impressive endeavour to synthesize the ethics of Plato and Kant in a comprehensive account of action and agency that locates the key to understanding both in self-constitution. A purportedly comprehensive account of action and agency will fail on its own terms if it cannot adequately account for some morally salient phenomenon. Korsgaard’s account fails to adequately account for the possibility of evil actions and evil people. If self-constitution is key to action and agency, then we must abandon the Platonic and Kantian elements that Korsgaard endorses.
- Subjects
GOOD &; evil; INTEGRITY; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHERS
- Publication
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0012-2173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0012217317000567