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Christine M. Korsgaard

Born

in Chicago, The United States

January 01, 1952

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Philosophy, Politics

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Rawls

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Christine M. Korsgaard is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general. She has taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago; since 1991 she has been a professor at Harvard University.

Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard where she was a student of John Rawls.

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	Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, Christine M. Korsgaard, Mary Gregor (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 22,640 ratings — published 1785 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sources of Normativity by Christine M. Korsgaard, Onora O'Neill (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series) by Ian Morris, Richard Seaford (Commentary), Jonathan D. Spence (Commentary) 3.69 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) 4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity 3.98 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating the Kingdom of Ends 4.39 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Ourselves Seriously & Getting It Right by Harry G. Frankfurt, Debra Satz (Editor), Christine M. Korsgaard (Annotations) 3.70 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CONSTITUTION OF AGENCY:ESS PRAC REASON MORAL PSYCH PAPER: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skepticism about Practical Reason really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology by Christine M. Korsgaard(2014-03-19) by Christine M. Korsgaard, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“On the other hand, when I think of other philosophers who have spent their lives developing some system, and I admire their work even though I disagree with it, I think of them as the guardians of some set of ideas and lines of thoughts that philosophers through time have found it fruitful and illuminating to think through. That seems to me a valuable thing to do, even if in the end I don’t think their views are right. But it’s a little hard to think of one’s own work in that way. After all, I believe the things that I believe.”
― Christine M. Korsgaard

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“to be a person is to be constantly engaged in making yourself into that person”
― Christine M. Korsgaard, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity

tags: agency, constructivism, deontology, ethics, morality, person

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“The principle of a good will, therefore, is to do only those actions whose maxims can be conceived as having the form of a law. If there is such a thing as moral obligation – if, as Kant himself says, “duty is not to be as such an empty delusion and a chimerical concept” (4:402) – then we must establish that our wills are governed by this principle: “I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.”
― Christine M. Korsgaard, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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