Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 08:26:11 +0100
From: bda94-AT-stud.hoe.se (bwanika)
Subject: Re: Agency: Porpora, Bhaskar, and Giddens



  Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:45:05 GMT-700
   Hans despain wrote;-


>Doug adds: 
>
>"With regard to agency, I accept the position I believe is current
>in analytical philosophy that action is the product of our reasons --
>wants, beliefs, intentions, etc.  My one realist innovation here, I think,
>is to argue that our mental states comprise an intrinsically open system
>that can never be closed so as to produce causally lawlike regularities.
>Instead, the explanation of human action must always take a narrative or
>historical form."


This sounds very interesting. One question I have in mind in this regard is
the question of unemployment in Western Europe. Don't you think the
statisation of 'emergent properties' ( self realisation) in human
development has create a situation where redudant labour force can't think
beyond what the state can do for them? What is lying behind the  cuases of
social misery in this part of the world if at all, intrinsically open
systems can't be closed?
I think, with the present social structure there is an element of the
Kantian, " talk as much as you want but do as I say " chapter of
enlightment. Which in return grounds the Rawlsian theory of justice the veil
as Bhashak put it in his Plato etc.148-153.



Bwanika. Daniel,
bda94-AT-stud.hoe.se
=D6rebro University college.




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