Life and action elementary structures of practice and practical thought /

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Main Author: Thompson, Michael, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The representation of life
  • Can life be given a real definition?
  • The representation of the living individual
  • The representation of the life-form itself
  • Part II: Naive action theory
  • Types of practical explanation
  • Naive explanation of action
  • Action and time
  • Part III: Practical generality
  • Two tendencies in practical philosophy
  • Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions
  • Practice and disposition as sources of individual action.