Abstract

This is an extremely lucid analysis of free will, the relativity of values, and the relationship between them, based on the “dignity of the individual … because one is the ultimate originator of one’s own ends”. It is an analysis which avoids “mystery at all costs … [and] … appeals to mysterious forms of agency”. Kane’s theory neither requires nor rules out mind/body dualism, the appeal to noumenal selves, or other nonoccurrent causes.