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    It is not the case that The desire to act in accordance with reasons is the mental attitude fit to play the role of the agent.

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical account shows that what makes an attitude the agent's own is identification via higher-order volitions, not inalienability.
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    • 2.A desire to act on reasons can itself be alienated if the agent lacks a higher-order endorsement of that very desire.
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    • 3.Therefore, the desire to act on reasons is not structurally different from other disownable attitudes and cannot uniquely constitute the agent.
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    • 1.Korsgaard's constitutivism requires that agency is grounded in self-constitution through practical identity, not in any single inalienable desire.
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    • 2.An agent who reflectively rejects their practical identity would thereby disown even the desire to act on reasons, rendering it disownable after all.
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    • 1.The standard theory fails because agents can disown the mental attitudes it posits.
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    • 2.Irreducible agent-causation is not an acceptable solution.
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    • 3.The only remaining strategy is to find a mental attitude the agent cannot disown.
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