Repression, Integrity and Practical Reasoning

By: Gary Jaeger

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Hardcover | 17 July 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Often it is most rational for us to repress the temptation to satisfy those desires that conflict with our most established goals or that seem contrary to our way of life. Sometimes, however, failing to see the reason-giving force of these desires leads to the least rational course of action. This book argues that sometimes we have reasons to overcome repression and that these reasons are unlike any other reasons for action typically recognized by philosophers. Even though they are relative to our desires, reasons to overcome repression are external in the sense that we cannot deliberate about them. If we could correctly deliberate about them, we would already have overcome repression and would lose our reason to do so. Although seemingly irrational at first, overcoming repression is rational is so far as it enhances integrity and makes us a more active agent over time.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Oligarchic Soul	p. 1
Repression: an introduction	p. 1
Normative Repression	p. 14
Introduction	p. 14
The possibility of practical irrationality	p. 16
Freudian unconscious repression	p. 19
A Freudian legacy	p. 27
Normative repression	p. 30
Repression and reasons for acting	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 35
Repression and External Reasons	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
The debate over external reasons	p. 38
Repression and reasons to overcome it	p. 43
Realism and relativity	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 55
The Limits of Non-Relative Views	p. 56
Introduction	p. 56
Non-relative views	p. 58
Non-relative externalism	p. 58
Non-relative internalism	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 75
The Limits of Relative Internalism	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
The limits of relative internalism	p. 78
Sailing Neurath's boat: synchronic majoritarian coherence	p. 80
Betting on a better boat: diachronic apportioned coherence	p. 88
Conclusion	p. 97
Reasons, Rationality and Agency	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Reasons and agency	p. 100
The long and downhill road to Damascus	p. 105
Better boat building: diachronic agency	p. 111
Odysseus, Russian aristocrats, and other diachronic agents	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 120
Objections and Rejoinders	p. 122
Introduction	p. 122
Bootstrapping	p. 123
Coherence as a formal requirement of reason	p. 127
On brainwashing	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 139
Conclusion: The Scope of Relative Externalism	p. 141
Introduction	p. 141
Incapacitation from within: addiction	p. 142
Incapacitation from without: political oppression	p. 149
A final word	p. 154
Notes and References	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 168
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