Da constituição da agência à autoconstituição : a trajetória conceitual de Christine Korsgaard

Abstract

The study at hand intends to present analytically Christine Korsgaard's conceptual trajectory, beginning from her investigation on the fundaments of normativity and her own theory that follows. The text is structured in three chapters, trying to (i) systematize the inquiries into practical philosophy done by Korsgaard, (ii) make the philosopher's position on the constitution of agency explicit, (iii) highlight the constructivist and realist aspects of the korsgaardian thesis and (vi) demonstrate the consequences of said philosophical enterprise to adjacent themes within practical philosophy. The first chapter deals with the "normative question" - how it appears and which philosophical stance is able to deal with it with success - bringing about the fundamental structure of agency in the form of Korsgaard's constitutivism and the procedural thesis of construtivism from within the theme of normativity. The following chapter consists in an analysis of construtivism about reasons for action and of the relation between agency and practical identity. The last chapter closes with the theme of self-constitution, as the most tangibly practical conclusion of Korsgaard's philosophy. As a general outlook, a systematization of Christine Korsgaard?s conceptual trajectory in an analytical fashion is given so that the developments done by the philosopher are put side by side and a broad and ambitious theory of practical philosophy becomes explicit. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]