Harry Frankfurt's hierarchical model in 'Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person' shows that self-making consists in identifying with and endorsing one's motivational structure through second-order volitions.

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Harry Frankfurt(as a modern philosopher referenced in debates about God's power): A 20th-century American philosopher who wrote about the nature of God's omnipotence and whether an all-powerful being can be limited by its own nature.
Hierarchical model(as Frankfurt's theory of moral responsibility): A framework that organizes desires or values into levels—your basic desires (like wanting coffee) versus your deeper, reflective choices about what kind of person you want to be.
Motivational structure(as used in ethics and philosophy of action): The underlying reasons or drives that push someone to act in a certain way—what actually makes them want to do something.
second-order volitions(Augustine's distinction between orders of volition): Acts of the liberum voluntatis arbitrium by which one chooses between conflicting first-order volitions

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