The Role of Your Agency in Aspiration

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Aspiration requires help, i but i think it's consistent with saying that i needed a lot of help to do something. If i hadn't had certain kind of origins, i wouldn't have done it,. To say, i'm the one who did it a so i think we want o the story of aspiration has to be a story that makes a place for human agency inside a field of other agents and also other kinds of forces on us.

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.