Christine M. Korsgaard
Books
Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity
Oxford University Press, 2009.
An expansion of my 2002 Locke Lectures, in which I argue that moral principles, and the principles of practical reason generally,
are constitutive principles of agency, and that in the course of constituting our agency, we also constitute our own identities.
Will be available on the web through Oxford Scholarship Online in June.
The Constitution of Agency
Oxford University Press, 2008.
A collection of papers, mostly published between 1996 and 2005.
Available on the web through Oxford Scholarship Online
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Table of Contents:
Introduction [Abstract]
Part One: The Principles of Practical Reason
1. The Normativity of Instrumental Reason [Abstract]
2. The Myth of Egoism [Abstract]
3. Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant [Abstract]
Part Two: Moral Virtue and Moral Psychology
4. Aristotle's Function Argument [Abstract]
5. Aristotle on Function and Virtue [Abstract]
6. From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action [Abstract]
7. Acting for a Reason [Abstract]
Part Three: Other Reflections
8. Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right to Revolution [Abstract]
9. The General Point of View: Love and Moral Approval in Hume's Ethics [Abstract]
10. Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth Century Moral Philosophy [Abstract]
The Sources
of Normativity
Cambridge University Press, 1996
An expanded version of my 1992 Tanner Lectures
In these lectures I identify four accounts of the normativity of moral obligation which have been advocated by modern moral philosophers. I trace their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one, and compare earlier versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and in the latter part of the lectures I conclude with my own modified version of the Kantian account. The lectures are followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by me.
Creating the
Kingdom of Ends
Cambridge University Press, 1996
A collection of previously published papers on Kant's moral philosophy and Kantian approaches to issues in contemporary moral philosophy.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Kant's Moral Philosophy
1. An Introduction to the Ethical, Political, and Religious Thought of
Kant [Abstract]
2. Kant's Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork
I [Abstract]
3. Kant's Formula of Universal Law [Abstract]
4. Kant's Formula of Humanity [Abstract]
5. The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil [Abstract]
6. Morality as Freedom [Abstract]
7. Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and
Responsibility in Personal Relations [Abstract]
Part Two: Comparative Essays
8. Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [Abstract]
9. Two Distinctions in Goodness [Abstract]
10. The Reasons We Can Share: An Attack on the Distinction
Between Agent-Relative and Agent Neutral Values. [Abstract]
11. Skepticism about Practical Reason [Abstract]
12. Two Arguments Against Lying [Abstract]
13. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to
Parfit [Abstract]