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

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    • 1.If an agent is responsible for securing her identification with her motives, we must ask: under what conditions does the agent govern her identification with some motive?
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    • 2.This question generates a further question about what conditions the agent must satisfy to identify with the motives that move her to identify with other motives
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    • 3.Each level of identification requires a governing condition, producing an infinite regress
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    • 1.Hierarchical identification can terminate in a 'whole-self' endorsement that is self-certifying rather than requiring a further endorser, as Frankfurt argues in 'The Faintest Passion'.
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    • 2.A regress only viciates if each level requires a distinct act of identification; dispositional wholehearted caring arrests the regress without generating an infinite hierarchy.
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    • 1.Procedural accounts like Christman's require only that identification arise through a non-alienating historical process, not that the agent actively secure each identification at every level.
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    • 2.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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    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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