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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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