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Agency

On a spiritual path, coming to self through personal liberation yields a deeper understanding of our capacity to act as ethical agents. This sense of responsibility to develop oneself is what I call agency.

Real

True Narratives

  • Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton University Press, 2002).
  • Sabina Knight, The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction (Harvard  University Asia Center, 2006).
  • T.C.Kline and Philip J. Ivanhoe, Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi (Hackett Pub. Co., 2000).

Technical and Analytical Readings

  • Christine M. Korsgaard, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Christine M. Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2008).
  • Jeanette Kennett, Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2001).
  • Robert B. Pippin, Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • Nomy Arpaly, Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency (Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • Jerome M. Segel, Agency, Illusion, and Well-Being: Essays in Moral Psychology and Philosophical Economics (Books, 2009).
  • Michael D. Bristol, ed., Shakespeare and Moral Agency (Continuum, 2010).
  • Stanley B. Cunningham, Reclaiming Moral Agency: The Moral Philosophy of Albert the Great (Catholic University of America Press, 2008).
  • Andrews Reath, Agency and Autonomy in Kant’s Moral Theory: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • William Andrew Rottschaefer, The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
  • John Deigh, The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory  (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
  • Renée Jeffrey, ed., Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
  • Tony Erskine, ed., Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
  • Linda Holler, Erotic Morality: The Role of Touch in Moral Agency (Rutgers University Press, 2002).

Imaginary

Fictional Narratives

Novels:

  • Shing Yin Khor , The Legend of Auntie Po (Kokila, 2021): “. . . by connecting with traditions old and new, and harnessing the healing power of storytelling within her community, Mei begins to recognize her agency in a prejudiced world.”

Music: songs and other short pieces

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Solo Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, bwv 1011: (5) Gavotte, (6) Gigue

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Every good musician represents the virtue of agency. I selected a fine jazz pianist, Bill Evans, to entertain whoever may care to listen on the occasion of this day.

  • “On Green Dolphin Street” album
  • “Time Remembered” album
  • Jazz at the Maintenance Shop (1979)
  • Trio on Jazz 625
  • Oslo concert (1966), Molde Jazz Festival (1980)
  • Oslo concert: part 1 and part 2
  • “Portrait in Jazz” album
  • “Interplay” album
  • “Loose Blues” album
  • “New Jazz Conceptions” album
  • “Sunday at the Village Vanguard” album
  • “The 1960 Birdland Sessions” album
  • Bill Evans: grand maestro
  • Complete last performance (1979)
  • “Complete Live at Ronnie Scott’s” album
  • “Autumn Leaves” album
  • “Consecration” set
  • “Smile with Your Heart: The Best of Bill Evans on Resonance”

Jazz saxophonist, flautist and clarinetist Eric Dolphy is another exemplar of agency in music.

  • “Out to Lunch” album
  • “Live at the Five Spot” album
  • “Iron Man” album
  • “Far Cry!” album
  • “Musical Prophet” album
  • The Complete Uppsala Concert

Other jazz albums:

  • "Mikropuls", an album of free jazz
  • Andrew McCormack, “Solo”: “Solo's sole instrument is the acoustic piano—a Steinway Model D Concert Grand to be precise—which McCormack uses to perform a wide-ranging repertoire of engaging and beautifully-played music, whether his own compositions or reinterpretations of others.'”

Compositions:

  • Poulenc, Solo Piano works
  • Zemlinsky, Solo Piano works
  • Mascitti, Sonate a violin solo e basso, Opera Ottave (Paris, 1731)
  • Telemann, 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute

August 22, 2010

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