Abstract
Abstract Ambivalence is a familiar but typically unwelcome phenomenon. We instead prefer to be unified or wholehearted in what we do. Unificationists like Plato, Augustine, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Harry Frankfurt, and Christine M. Korsgaard (among many others) defend the claim that agential unity is preferable to ambivalence because it alone secures autonomy, meaningfulness, and integrity. Being unified or wholehearted is, on the unificationist view, the hallmark of ideal or well-functioning agency. This chapter introduces three unificationist arguments: the Resolution Argument, the Affirmation Argument, and the Argument from Self-Defeat. It then briefly identifies an alternative account of well-functioning agency, one that identifies disunity of a certain form as being crucial for evaluative competence.
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