PRACTICAL IDENTITY AND NORMATIVITY:

CONSIDERATIONS FROM HEIDEGGER AND KORSGAARD

Authors

  • Júlia Garcia Tronco Universidade Federal de Santa Maria -UFSM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v11i5.51847

Keywords:

Normativity, Pratical Identity, Agency, Heidegger, Korsgaard

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present Martin Heidegger's and Christine Korsgaard's conceptions about the normative problem and the practical identity problem. The work goes through a brief reconstruction of the debate raised by Mark Okrent and Steven Crowell in relation to the thesis of normativity and agency in Korsgaard, recognizing that despite the possible approximations, Heidegger's interpretation would be more pertinent to address the problems. First, it presents how Heidegger interprets and elucidates the existential possibilities based on the structure of comprehension and what he calls in-order-to. Then, Korsgaard's theory is presented, already recognizing the approximations and distances with the Heideggerian elucidations. Finally, the critics made to Korsgaard by Okrent and Crowell and the possible interpretive advantage over the normative questions of the problem of personal identity constituted from practical terms are reconstructed.

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Published

2020-12-14

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 5 (2020)

Section

Papers

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