Abstract
Abstract Chapter 5 considered two versions of the Argument from Self-Defeat. This chapter offers a direct argument that integrity sometimes requires agents to be ambivalent. This argument rests on an analysis of Agamemnon’s infamous sacrifice of his daughter. In that case, we see and agent who makes himself wholehearted, and as a result, betrays himself and guarantees self-defeat. This chapter also begins to explore how ambivalence would better serve agents like Agamemnon. This chapter concludes that ambivalence cannot be intrinsically self-defeating (as unificationists claim) in a way that precludes agential integrity. This result serves as the beginning of a more systematic explanation of what goes wrong with the unificationist account of agency.
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