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    Self-government requires the capacity for self-alienation... — Carmelics
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    Self-government requires the capacity for self-alienation — the ability to distance oneself from one's own motives

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    • 1.Self-government requires two points of view: that of the governing authority and that of the governed
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    • 2.If rational agents could not distance themselves from their own motives, they would be incapable of governing themselves
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    • 1.Harry Frankfurt's hierarchical model shows self-governance consists in identification with one's desires, not alienation from them.
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    • 2.Wholeheartedness — caring without ambivalence — constitutes the highest form of autonomous agency for Frankfurt, not reflective distance.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-government is achieved through integration with one's motives, making self-alienation a symptom of failure, not a requirement.
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    • 1.Aristotelian practical wisdom (phronesis) requires that virtuous agents act from fully internalized character, not detached self-scrutiny.
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    • 2.A governing 'distance' from one's motives presupposes a homuncular self standing apart from character, which Aristotle's unified agent rejects.
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    • 3.If the self just is its stable dispositions and commitments, no coherent 'distancing' self remains to do the governing.
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    Reflections along these lines have led some to conclude that we are bound to come up empty-handed as long as we think of an agent’s identification with her motives as a self-relation she is responsible for securing. For, as long as we take this approach, we appear to be stuck with the question: under what conditions does the agent govern her identification with some motive? what conditions must she satisfy in order to identify with the motives that move her to identify with some of her motives a
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