Action in a narrow and in a broad sense

  1. Ana Marta González
Book:
Practical rationality: scope and structures of human agency

Publisher: Olms

ISBN: 978-3-487-14330-9

Year of publication: 2010

Pages: 123-168

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to clarify the difference between deliberate action and spontaneous action, and see how Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume and Kant approach this topic.