PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Hume, Rationality
24 Feb 2016
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Week 2: the metaphysics of moral agency lecture #3. The kantian conception of the self is motivated and structured by internalized norms that dispose it to various kinds of conscious behaviour; and overridingly by a highest-order norm of theoretical rationality that secures its internal unity. Your normative self conception - i. e. , all those norms with which you actively identity. These norms may include, be identical with, or entirely disjointed frm one"s motivationally effective norms. One major distinction between this and the humean self: when discussing the humean self, you"re discussing desires; when discussing the kantian self, you"re discussing norms. The norm of theoretical rationality functions as the adjudicator as to which norms can be conceived as part of the self and which norms cannot. It is the most essential feature of the kantian conception of the self. The kantian self strives to render itself intelligibly. To this end, one"s norms cannot contradict one another or undermine one another.
