Resolutions

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-173

  Kovach, Vanya ^a   Fitzpatrick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 61149222726     PISSN: 00048402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048409912348911     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Michael Smith, 'Valuing: Desiring or Believing?', Reduction, Explanation and Realism, eds. David Charles and Kathleen Lennon, pp. 323-360 and many other places.
2. John Bigelow, Susan M. Dodds, and Robert Pargetter, 'Temptation and the Will', American Philosophical Quarterly 27 (1990).
3. See Marcia Baron, Kantian Ethics (almost) Without Apology (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 202-3.
4. Recent work on Kant suggests that transformation, and not merely control, is indeed part of his conception of virtue. '. . .Kant's own notion of virtue, understood not simply as fortitude against obstacles but fortitude in transforming the material substrate of character in ways that ultimately strengthen practical agency'. Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). p. 182.
5. Jeanette Kennett and Michael Smith, 'Frog and Toad Lose Control', Analysis 56.2 (April 1996), pp. 63-73.
6. A number of studies have demonstrated a connection between self-esteem and self-control and motivation. One survey of the research reports that high self-esteem is correlated with (among other things) self-control, singleness of purpose, autonomy, and the ability to meet personal goals and aspirations. Low self-esteem individuals, on the other hand, were more likely to be procrastinators. See Robert N. Campbell, The New Science: Self-Esteem Psychology (University Press of America, 1984), p.21-2. Interestingly, Campbell also argues, in a discussion of Kant, that the motivating power of 'reverence for the law' comes from self-esteem, since what the Kantian 'reveres' is her own autonomous reason.