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critique that motivate minimalist accounts. To begin with, I will present an account by an author whom I already presented as a critic of Bratman’s account, Stephen Butterfill. In the respective section, I only addressed the negative part of his approach to joint action. In the next section, I will present
imaginary cases of collective intention. If the videogame example raises further questions about the intentionality involved, other real life situations might help to illustrate this point likewise. Think of two people moving together, Hans and Uschi. They start to carry a large piece of furniture like a
is no longer just a matter of describing under what conditions religiously motivated entrepreneurs operate or how religious beliefs motivate their actions but how the thought operation of putting oneself in the place of the Other, necessary to understand their motivations, can provide some knowledge
. Durkheim refers to them as two “views of society,” which condition our behavior so that “we act out of respect for duty or through a desire of the good.” 15 The first view creates limitations for us, sets a social function, and defines the range of resources at our disposal. The second one motivates
what we do and what happens, and then expects to find a theory of life that harmonizes with the actual situation, he will be shocked by the contradiction he comes upon. For the situation calls for assertion of complete economic determinism. We live as if economic forces determined the growth and decay
classrooms even in the afternoons, and preferably stay there all the time. Rilke then wrote a short article praising the Swedish experiment and sharing more general reflections on life: It seems to me as if we, the adults, live in a world with no freedom. Freedom is a moving, rising law that changes
contradictory assumptions, sociological theory tends to obscure rather than highlight this circumstance, becoming at times a passive observer and, at times conversely, an active and critical actor of social life. However, in the case of rational choice theory, one of the most popular schools of social analysis
time of mass democracy. 1 Cf. extensive study by John M. Cooper, Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus , Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, in which he writes that philosophy recommends living based on “reasoned understanding” by which “a