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Regarded prospectively, from the point of view of the initially endorsed purpose, the move from implicit to explicit is one of change. The content of the intention evolves and develops, becoming more definite and determinate under the influence of the actual circumstances in which the intention is realized, as plans are formulated, implemented, amended, or replaced. Regarded retrospectively, from the point of view of the finally achieved result, the move from implicit to explicit is one of revelation of the content of an intention that was all along present, albeit in some sense (visible only retrospectively) implicitly. Finally, this account enables us to understand the intimate connection asserts between intentional agency and the constitution of individual selves. The development of an intention by the alteration of a plan involves sacrificing some commitments—to the rejected plan, perhaps to some of the sub-goals it endorsed—and thereby identifying with others. The process by which self-conscious individual selves constitute themselves (in a recognitive community) is a process of relinquishing or altering, in general sacrificing some commitments in favor of other, incompatible ones, which one thereby counts as identifying with. We are now in a position to see that intentional action is a process that has just this self-constituting structure. The process of carrying through an intention is a process of self determination or making oneself into a (more) determinately contentful self by identifying with some commitments and rejecting others. That is why “what the subject is, is the series of its actions,” “individuality is the cycle of its action,” and “an individual cannot know what he is until he has made himself a reality through action.” The very same process that is the exercise of intentional agency is at the same time the expression of self-conscious individuality. “[T]he essential nature of the work... is to be a self-expression of... individuality.” The unity of the action is, in the end,
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