
Will as Commitment and Resolve
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Project of an Existential Theory of Personhood
- Part I: The Idea of Willing as Projective Motivation
- 1 Introduction
- 1. The Heroic Will
- 2. The Existential Theory of Striving Will as Projective Motivation
- 3. An Outline of the Main Argument
- 4. The Limits of This Analysis
- 5. A Reader's Guide: Ways through the Text
- 2 The Heroic Will in Eastern and Western Perspectives
- 1. The Paradigmatically ''Eastern'' Attitude toward Will and Willfulness
- 2. The Paradigmatically ''Western'' Attitude
- 3. The Continental Inversion
- 4. Contemporary Moral Psychology as Corrective
- 3 From Action Theory to Projective Motivation
- 1. The Decline of the Will
- 2. Kane's Three Senses of ''Will''
- 3. Four Basic Concepts of the Will
- 4 The Erosiac Structure of Desire in Plato and Aristotle
- 1. Toward an Existential Theory of Motivation
- 2. Plato's Erosiac Model of Motivation
- 3. From Plato's Middle Soul to Aristotle's Intellectual Appetite
- 5 Aristotelian Desires and the Problems of Egoism
- 1. Aristotle and the Typology of Erosiac Desire
- 2. Formal and Material Egoism
- Part II: The Existential Critique of Eudaimonism
- 6 Psychological Eudaimonism: A Reading of Aristotle
- 1. The Highest or Complete Good in Aristotle's Eudaimonism
- 2. Excursus: Maximal Inclusivism, Virtue Inclusivism, and Dominant-End Models
- 3. The A-Eudaimonist System: An Idealized Aristotelian Model
- 7 The Paradox of Eudaimonism: An Existential Critique
- 1. Elements of the Pure Motive of Virtue
- 2. Annas and Kraut on the Motive of Virtue in Friendship
- 3. The Paradox of Eudaimonism: Desiring Eudaimonia as a By-Product of Virtue
- 4. Why the Paradox Cannot Be Solved by Denying that Eudaimonia Motivates Virtue
- 5. Magnanimity as Aristotle's Answer to the Paradox
- 6. Why the Paradox Cannot Be Solved by Second-Order Desire Subsuming First-Order Desire
- 7. The Existential Solution: Pure Motives as Projects of the Striving Will
- 8. The Paradox as One of Several Related Objections to Eudaimonism
- 8 Contemporary Solutions to the Paradox and Their Problems
- 1. Cooper's Solution: Virtuous Motivation as a Constitutive Means to Eudaimonia
- 2. Gottlieb's Solution: Pushing Desire for Eudaimonia into the ''Background''
- 3. Indirect Eudaimonism: a Possible Parfitian Solution?
- 4. Sherman on Friendship
- 5. Practices, Virtue, and External Eudaimonism
- 6. Watson's Pure Aretaic Naturalism
- 7. Social Holist Eudaimonism as a Radical Solution?
- 8. Conclusion: Toward a Rejection of the Transmission Principle
- Part III: Case Studies for the Existential Will as Projective Motivation
- 9 Divine and Human Creativity: From Plato to Levinas
- 1. Thick and Thin Concepts of Motivation
- 2. The Neoplatonic Projective Model of Divine Agape
- 3. Arendt on Creative Work
- 4. Levinas on Superabundant Will and Volitional Generosity
- 5. The General Structure of Projective Motivation
- 10 Radical Evil and Projective Strength of Will
- 1. Why Eudaimonism Misses Virtue and Vice in Their Most Radical Forms
- 2. Toward an Existential Theory of Radical Evil: Six Forms of Volitional Hatred
- 3. Aquinas and Kierkegaard on Evil: A Response to MacIntyre
- 4. Projective Strength of Will versus Enkrateia
- 11 Scotus and Kant: The Moral Will and Its Limits
- 1. The Medieval Shift away from Eudaimonism: Scotus and the Moral Will
- 2. Kant and the Projective Motive of Duty
- 3. Projective Willing and Libertarian Freedom
- 12 Existential Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation: Deci, Maslow, and Frankl
- 1. Twentieth-Century Psychological Theories of Motivation
- 2. From Drive Theories to Intrinsic Motivation
- 3. An Existential Reinterpretation of Intrinsic Motivation
- 4. Maslow's Eudaimonism
- 5. Frankl's Existential Will to Meaning
- 6. How Caring Benefits the Agent: Frankfurt on Means and Ends
- 7. Self-Esteem as By-Product
- 8. Willed Carelessness: Emily Fox Gordon's Case
- 9. Willed Inferiority: Sartre
- 13 Caring, Aretaic Commitment, and Existential Resolve
- 1. Frankfurtian Care as Projective Motivation
- 2. Aretaic Commitment and Backward-Looking Considerations
- 14 An Existential Objectivist Account of What Is Worth Caring About
- 1. Existential Objectivism
- 2. Caring and the Good in Recent Political Philosophy
- 3. Three Initial Reasons for Objectivism
- 4. Frankfurtian Arguments for Subjectivism and Objectivist Rebuttals
- 5. The Reciprocal Relation between Value Insight and Volitional Resolve
- 6. Toward a Taxonomy of Signi.cant Grounds for Caring
- Conclusion: The Danger of Willfulness Revisited
- Notes
- Glossary of Definitions, Technical Terms, and Abbreviations
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