Agnes Callard
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832 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
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You know, when Martin Luther King says, you know, don't judge people by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, I take it the underlying argument is because the content of their character is who they really are.
That's why you should judge them by that.
You should judge them by who they are, right?
So there are many things like associated with a person, like being a person, that means you have a physical body, you occupy a certain space, right?
But what is the fundamental fact about you?
And I guess at least as far as ethics is concerned, and then there's going to be a question about the relation between ethics and metaphysics, but at least as far as ethics is concerned, the fundamental fact about you is what do you value?
And so in creating what I call yourself, you are creating the ethically fundamental fact or feature about you.
But I have to admit that I have not thought much about the metaphysical implications of those claims and how they interact with claims in the personal identity literature about like personal identity over time and what sort of holds a person together and makes them one over a period of time.
That's not because I think those questions are disconnected actually or can be really separated, but I just haven't done it.
That is roughly how I'm using the phrase true self.
I think that's not uncontentious.
That is, I don't think that that's what the phrase has to mean.
And I don't argue for it.
I just I say this at the end of the introduction.
I'm just presupposing that that's what yourself is, is like yourself as insofar as you're an object of moral approval or disapproval, both to other people and to yourself, like the things about yourself that you could be proud of.
Right.
But maybe one thing that's worth pointing out is that it's a presupposition of your book that your true self could be something that doesn't exist yet.
Right.
So that in some sense, like in a lot of the true self literature, there's just an assumption that your true self is some part or aspect of the person that you already are.
We have to find it.
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