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    There must be an attitude that can be identified with the... — Carmelics
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    There must be an attitude that can be identified with the agent's point of view simply by virtue of being the attitude it is — an attitude from which no agent can possibly be alienated

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    • 1.To escape the regress generated by asking what conditions govern each identification, there must be some terminal attitude that requires no further authorization
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    • 2.A terminal attitude must be one that identifies with the agent's point of view without depending on a higher-order identification
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    • 1.Frankfurt's own hierarchical account shows that whichever attitude is designated 'terminal' remains revisable through further reflection or therapy.
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    • 2.An attitude that can in principle be revised under ideal conditions cannot constitute an inescapable point of view simply by virtue of being that attitude.
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    • 3.Therefore the regress is not terminated by identifying a privileged attitude but is merely deferred, as Gary Watson's mesh theory objections demonstrate.
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    • 1.Korsgaard argues that agency is constituted through reflective endorsement of practical identities, none of which is immune to alienation under radical self-revision.
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    • 2.If even our deepest commitments can be abandoned through the kind of identity transformation Parfit documents in 'Reasons and Persons', no attitude is structurally inescapable.
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    Key Terms

    Alienated(as describing what happens when ethical life breaks down)
    A state where people feel separated from their work, community, or own humanity—where life feels imposed on them rather than genuinely theirs.
    Attitude(as used in philosophy of emotions)
    A settled way of thinking or feeling about something—in this case, how the person has decided to view and feel toward the person who wronged her.
    Necessarily/Necessity (in logic)(modal logic and metaphysics)
    Something that is necessarily true must be true in all possible situations—it cannot be false. For example, 'all bachelors are unmarried' is necessarily true, but 'it is raining' is not (it could be sunny instead).
    Point of view(as used in ethical reasoning)
    A particular perspective or way of looking at something; in philosophy, it often means considering something from a specific person's interests or values.
    Virtue of being(in metaphysics and ontology)
    A quality or property that something has simply because of what it fundamentally is, rather than because of outside circumstances.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor

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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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