NDLI: Acting for a Reason and Following a Principle

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	McAninch, Andrew James
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	According to an influential view of practical reason and rational agency, a person acts for a reason only if she recognizes some consideration to be a reason, where this recognition motivates her to act. I call this requirement the guidance condition on acting for a reason. Despite its intuitive appeal, the guidance condition appears to generate a vicious regress. At least one proponent of the guidance condition, Christine M. Korsgaard, is sensitive to this regress worry, and her appeal in recent work to the constitutive principles of action can be seen, in part, as a response to it. I argue, however, that if we are to appeal to the constitutive principles of action to resolve the regress, then we must determine whether acting on such principles is also subject to the guidance condition. This raises a dilemma. If following these principles is subject to the guidance condition, then the regress remains unresolved. But if not, then the rationale for applying it to acting for a reason vanishes as well. I conclude that we should embrace an account of acting for a reason that rejects the guidance condition.
Starting Page	649
Ending Page	661
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13862820
Journal	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728447
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-11-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Agency Constitutivism Korsgaard, Christine M Practical reason Regress Ethics Political Philosophy Theory of Medicine/Bioethics Philosophy of Medicine Ontology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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