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Introduction
INTRODUCTION

Author(s): Theodore Schatzki
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Slovenská Akadémia Vied - Kabinet výskumu sociálnej a biologickej komunikácie
Keywords: Action; practice theory

Summary/Abstract: Human activity has always been central to philosophy and social thought. Although philosophers have not always claimed activity as a prime topic, because philosophy studies human life activity is ipso facto pivotal to its concerns. Philosophers have always been interested in human motivation, for example, as testified to by the historical dominance of such categorical distinctions as reason-emotion-desire and reasonpassion- will. The nature and possibility of rational action has also been particularly dear to their professional hearts. Insofar, moreover, as philosophers have sought to articulate normative social and political frameworks—for instance, on issues of justice and the good society—they have eo ipso been concerned with human activity. Not just in political philosophy, but in ethics, too, activity is key. Some philosophers have argued that human action is the principal object of moral appraisal.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 97-100
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English