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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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