Reasoning Toward Value Is a Learning Process

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"Rationality is a real and legitimate form of rationality," he says. "But there's still this question like, where did we get preferences? Where did they come from?" We can't understand reasoning towards value as a special, funny case of reasoning, ah, from value,. There really is an important independence in thinking about what you want to do with your life", the author adds.

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.