Intro: Further explication of notion of full endorsement, i.e. absence of conflict at second order level of desires as establishing an important authority to imbue upon desires.

1. Consciousness and Reflexivity

1. Reflexivity as necessary condition of Consciousness

1. Minimal consciousness and "immanent reflexivity"
2. Order of Entailment: C to R, not (UC to R)
3. Purposeful Activity: R (and thus C) is indispensable to successfully carrying out one’s purpose (self-monitoring progress towards goal).

1. Reflexivity as concern for one’s motives: People care about who they are.

1. Divided Self: conflicts at the second order, i.e. within one’s volitional complex

1. Ambivalence at second order: second order vacillation ("I want it, I don’t want it –I don’t know what really I want.")
2. Inconsistency: all second order interests are not integrated into a cohesive whole ("I want to be an A student, I want to party all night long.")
3. The Logic of the Infinite Regress: the problem is that position within a hierarchical structure doesn’t secure legitimate identification with agent.

1. Decisive Commitments

1. Math: "a situation somewhat analogous" to identifying with desires (p.167)

1. Solutions and Second Guesses: infinite regresses
2. Resolutions: "f-it" vs. deciding to let it stand (former is wanton, latter is indicative of a person)

1. Resounding Revisited: deciding to end speculations.

1. Confidence: transparency of future –content of "answer" (i.e. desire) will be the same no matter how many times or ways one does "the problem" (i.e. reflects upon the desire).
2. Lack of confidence: one concedes that the "answer" may change, because it may be the wrong one, BUT the reasonableness of stopping wherever one did will remain
3. Resounding = Decisiveness: "without reservation" c.f. final ans?

1. Arbitrariness: the fact of the fallibility of a principle (or execution of it) is insufficient to establish arbitrariness without explicitly addressing another fact, namely that an agent may have reasons for ending speculations –that would not be arbitrary.

1. Integration (as condition of Personhood)

1. Constituting Oneself: "…lines in the sand."

1. Deciding as Cutting Off: conflicts at or across the second order that are resolved by DCs are acts of separation and integration –drawing a line in the sand: siding with one side and opposing the other.
2. Identity as Integration: formulating a sense of authentic identity is accomplished by delineating the line between what is me and not me.

1. The self as project: Integration requires that an agent exercise their will

1. Origins of Desire and Character: agents need not will their desires into existence, they need only to will their endorsement of them.
2. The definite contours of one’s character are actively created.

1. Coherency: since conflicts can disrupt a DC, one’s status as a Person rests upon working to create a unified self free from incompatibilities.
2. Responsibility for Character and Characteristics

1. Aristotle: responsibility for character is acquired by acting in causally relevant ways.
2. Frankfurt: such action could easily be passive (and still causally relevant), so this cannot be right (and must apply only to characteristics, not character). Responsibility for character rests in an agent's active endorsement of said characteristics and dispositions.

1. The Nature of Deciding and Wholeheartedness

1. Reflexive character of Deciding

1. Reflexive: done to oneself –immediate object of act is oneself
2. Not Choosing: done to external set of options

1. Making up One’s Mind: pertinent features to keep in mind

1. Altering: changing what lies underneath the new topcoat
2. Creating: bringing into existence a new thing (c.f. territory lines)
3. Ordering: ranking and cordoning off parts into proper areas
4. Healing: not necessarily eliminating conflict, but bolstering relationship between antagonistic parties.

1. The Point of Making Up One’s Mind

1. Static Integration: forms hierarchy by which identity is constituted
2. Dynamic Integration: provides checks and guidelines to address other desires and actions on the fly.

1. Wholeheartedness: Having a high order intention without reservation (or other conflicting intentions).