REASONS, MOTIVES, AND MORAL IDENTITY (Racje, motywy, tozsamosc moralna)

The authoress asks what is moral identity: is it psychological or only heuristic being; is it normative structure dependent on reason or something dependent on emotional motives; is it a kind of reaction and behavior or a specific indescribable experience? The article shows several philosophical projects to construct moral subjectivity. The authoress claims that both personal identity and moral subjectivity are concepts referring to psychological reality and normative reality. They are useful for social life, law and pedagogy but philosophically controversial. We are part of empirical world and we are universe for ourselves. There are first-person analyses of human conscience and third-person analyses of human character as natural fact. These are two main ways to treat moral subjectivity.