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Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life

English · Hardback

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The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following questions: Why do we act in a specific way? Why do we make particular decisions? Does one's form of life and language games determine our actions and decisions? Wittgenstein proposes a holistic method which enables us to give coherent answers to these questions. To answer the question of the contents of actions and decisions we have to explain how we have institutionalized these actions or decisions. To this aim we shall reveal the frame within which language games are introduced and have come to function as practice and custom. The scheme of order underlying the language games is illustrated. Human actions and decisions follow particular rules. By highlighting the underlying scheme of order we may gain a perspicuous view of these rules. The aim of this book is to show that actions and decisions generate rational choice. This choice is explained by demonstrating the particular functions of the language games involved.

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Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.

Product details

Assisted by Jesú Padilla Gálvez (Editor), Jesús Padilla Gálvez (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2016
 
EAN 9783110472882
ISBN 978-3-11-047288-2
No. of pages 173
Dimensions 167 mm x 15 mm x 236 mm
Weight 388 g
Series APORIA
Aporia
ISSN
Aporia, 9
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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