4 Quotes & Sayings By Christine M Korsgaard

Christine Korsgaard holds a Ph.D. (philosophy) from the University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. (history) from Harvard University. She teaches philosophy at the University of Chicago and is an editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology Read more

She is the author of three books: How we Believe: The Credibility Revolution and Its Legitimations (2004), The Sources of Normativity (2005) and co-editor (with Allan Gibbard) of two volumes: Philosophy and Social Science: New Essays on Ideal Theory (2008, 2009). She is currently writing a book on ethics and law that will appear in 2009.

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Thus we find that the unconditioned condition of the goodness of anything is rational nature... To play this role, however, rational nature must itself be something of unconditional value--and end in itself. Christine M. Korsgaard
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If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having...a value conferring status. Christine M. Korsgaard
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[A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be understood as lawlike form, that is, as a requirement of universalizability. Christine M. Korsgaard