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    This identificatory process is a genuine form of authorsh... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Human beings do make themselves, in the same garden-variety sense in which they make other things.

    This identificatory process is a genuine form of authorship over one's will, requiring no exemption from causal history — only reflective endorsement from within the agent's own evaluative perspective.

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    Key Terms

    Causal history(what the Inheritance View focuses on)
    The chain of events and causes that led to something happening; in this case, all the things that happened to cause you to have a particular belief.
    authorship(Condition for authority-capacity)
    The capacity to form an opinion on how subjects ought to behave that is distinct from those subjects' own reasoning about their reasons for action.
    evaluative perspective(in ethics and philosophy of mind)
    Your personal viewpoint based on what you care about, what you think is right, and your own values and beliefs.
    exemption from causal history(in debates about free will and determinism)
    The idea that something could happen without being caused by anything prior—essentially, magic or a break from how the world normally works.

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    identificatory process(in philosophy of action and personal identity)
    The act of making something your own by consciously recognizing it as part of who you are or what you believe in.
    reflective endorsement(The normative standard Hegel sets for how individuals should relate to their inherited social norms)
    The critical, self-conscious acceptance of societal norms, as opposed to unreflective or merely habitual conformity.
    will(Herbart's practical philosophy; distinguished from mere desire by cognitive determinacy and belief in attainability)
    A species of desire marked by determinate cognition and fixing of its object, combined with conviction that the object is attainable

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