A Social Theory of Freedom by Thalos Mariam

Author:Thalos, Mariam [Mariam Thalos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

(MIM)

Someone who fulfills Lily’s dreams goes to university;

I am (to be) a person who (in Lily’s place) fulfills that dream.

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Therefore, I shall go to university

She can perform this syllogism for Lily’s sake, or simply for the sake of making Lily proud.

When Lisa views her choice as means of thanking or honoring the memory of someone beloved to her, she makes it easier for herself to choose against expectation. Because—and now we can say it more plainly—this is what disadvantage does: it robs its victims of the ability to aspire in their own names, to aspire forthrightly and directly, for instance in the form of “I am (to be) a university graduate.” The disadvantaged, if they can aspire at all, have to do it covertly, in the name of other people to whom their aspirations, like their very accomplishments, are often offered as tribute or memorial. And when aspiring in this fashion is all the aspiring the disadvantaged can hope to do, the (IM) schema and its variants can be their friends.

The IM model of reasoning reveals the important features of motivation upon reasoning to do with action. Importantly, it reveals how motivation and decision are connected through the aspirational self. Our analysis here has illuminated how reasoning about self can be strengthened and people empowered through performance of the imitation schema, and how it can be made easier if thought of as a tribute or memorial to someone one admires or loves.

Finally, we have demonstrated in this chapter how the logic of authenticity is enacted from the subject side. (Recall, on the observer’s side, that we are to compare the individual’s ultimate aspirational self with the self of expectation—the Self ascribed to one by Others who are not necessarily friends.) We can at this stage put the thesis of this book in the following way: authenticity is imitation of your self-chosen aspirational self, and you are free in proportion to how far that aspirational self befits your experience of yourself in the past and diverges from the self that is held up to you for imitation by Others. This is one standard of assessment appropriate to world-making 3.0.

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