Responsibility and the self-made self
Responsibility has been sought in many places, from the mundane to the miraculous. But recently some philosophers have suggested a bold new basis for responsibility: we make it and take it ourselves. Not through miraculous self-choosing or contra-causal creativity, but by the ordinary process of shaping and approving our characters as we live our day-to-day this-worldly lives. We are not Prime Movers Unmoved, but we are genuine movers and shakers, who do things, choose things, make things including our selves and take responsibility for what we make. This self-made-responsibility view is exhibited in Harry G. Frankfurt's claim that we take responsibility through identification: