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    Charles Taylor's argument in 'Sources of the Self' establ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The transition from the aesthetic life to the ethical life requires a radical, unconditioned choice

    Charles Taylor's argument in 'Sources of the Self' establishes that strong evaluation is constitutive of agency, precluding a choice made from no evaluative standpoint.

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    • 1.Agents necessarily understand their choices through evaluative frameworks (moral, aesthetic, personal) that make action intelligible to themselves.
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    • 2.A choice from 'no evaluative standpoint' would be arbitrary and indistinguishable from mere happening, undermining agency itself.
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    • 3.Our deepest identities are constituted by our strong evaluations about what is worth doing, making them essential to agency.
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    • 1.Habitual or instinctive actions show genuine agency despite operating below conscious evaluative reflection or deliberation.
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    • 2.Taylor conflates necessary conditions for reflective agency with necessary conditions for all agency; choice needn't be consciously articulated.
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    • 3.Non-human animals exhibit goal-directed agency without strong evaluation, suggesting evaluation is sufficient but not constitutive for agency.
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