Christine Korsgaard, drawing on a Kantian view, distinguishes between animal action and autonomous agency by arguing that autonomous agency involves counting a desire as a reason for action, whereas animal action involves simply having the most powerful desire result in action.

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  Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• reason concept
• desire concept