Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming Callard Agnes
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming Callard Agnes Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. How can such…
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Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming Callard Agnes
Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. How can such activity be rational, if the reason for engaging in the relevant pursuit is only available to the person one will become? Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a passion for music or politics.
How can the work done to arrive at the finish line be ascribed to one who doesn't (really) know what one is doing, or why one is doing it? How is it psychologically possible to feel the attraction of a form of concern that is not yet one's own? In Aspiration, Agnes Callard asserts that these questions belong to the theory of aspiration.
Aspirants are motivated by proleptic reasons, acknowledged defective versions of the reasons they expect to eventually grasp. The