210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1987, investigates what distinguishes the part of human behaviour that is action (praxis) from the part that is not. The distinction was clearly drawn by Socrates, and developed by Aristotle and the medievals, but key elements of their work became obscured in modern philosophy, and were not fully recovered when, under Wittgenstein’s influence, the theory of action... Read more
1. Rational Animals and their Actions 1.1. The Socratic Tradition in the Theory of Human Action 1.2. Should the Socratic Tradition Be Jettisoned as Folk Psychology? 1.3. Plan For An Investigation of Human Action on Socratic Lines 2. Actions as Individual Events 3. Oexis and Doxa 4. Propositional Attitudes: Frege’s Semantics Revised 5. Choosing and Doing 6. Intending 7. Rationalizing and Explaining 8. Will and Intellect 9. Agency 10. Freedom of Choice
Biography
Alan Donagan
