PHIL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Overdetermination, Susan R. Wolf, Moral Insanity
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You can be a person with respect to some issues, (ie things you care about), but not be a person in. The term care is ambiguous, and already has many connotations of persons status but animals. The structure of the will defines a human: the will is a desire which moves a person to action. Distinguish between first and second order desires: first order desires are desires for any thing or event; second order desires: desires about desires (ex wishing one didn"t have a certain desire) However, these are not enough to define a human being. Subset: called second order volitions:a desire that some first order desire be ones will (ie be effectively expressed). Wantons: creatures with first and second order desires, but who lack a second order volition (ie it makes no difference to him which desires win) sometimes make rational choices as well.
