Riht: Turning yourself into something substantively new and different from what you had before is impossible. It's like a logical contradiction, right? So that's one of the puzzles that i try to address in the book. Riht: What it means for the fact that there is some kind of continuity between the two is that, in a certain way, you can sort of derive the later self from the earlier self.
Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration--who we are versus who we would like to become. How does aspiration work? How can we transform ourselves when we cannot know how it will feel to be transformed? Callard discusses these questions and more in this provocative episode.