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    Challenges→Thinking of an agent's identification with her motives as a self-relation she is responsible for securing will always leave us empty-handed

    If the relevant self-relation is constituted by the absence of coercion or self-deception during formation, no infinite regress is generated because the condition is historical, not iterative.

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    Key Terms

    Coercion(Kant's political philosophy; used to argue coercion is constitutive of rights, not merely instrumental.)
    A restriction of the freedom to pursue one's own ends.
    Constituted by(describing what conditions would make something true)
    Made up of or determined by; in this case, what things would need to happen for something to count as true.
    Self-deception(Zhu Xi's account of wrongdoing)
    Allowing oneself to ignore the promptings of one's moral sense and become motivated solely by physical desires
    historical (in this context)(explains why infinite regress doesn't occur—you look at the actual origin point, not endless layers)
    Based on something that happened at a specific point in time, rather than something you have to keep checking repeatedly.
    infinite regress

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    (modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition
    iterative(self-creation is described as iterative—happening through many small reflections and choices)
    Happening in repeated steps or cycles, building gradually over time rather than all at once.
    self-relation(describes how someone connects to their own decision-making)
    The way you relate to or think about yourself—basically, your relationship with your own thoughts, choices, and identity.

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