Harry Frankfurt on identification and identity
Abstract
What is personal identity? Frankfurt’s thought and the modifications it undergoes following objections by Velleman, Penelhum, Watson and Korsgaard are instructive because they highlight the scope and limitations of a gradual radicalization of a strictly individual self-constitution of one’s own volitional identity. This article traces that intellectual trajectory, which goes from those acts most amenable to immediate voluntary control (identification with a second-order desire and decisive and wholehearted identification) to those that are least amenable to it, but nonetheless self-imposed (volitional necessities, and necessities of love). In the end, Frankfurt admits there is a certain innate love.Downloads
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