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Course Instructor:
Dr. Biswanath Swain
IPM 2012 Batch, Term - IV
Individual Action
to
Collective Action
Psychological States
Need
Desire
Motive
Will
Want
Hope
Aim
Intention
But which one is having logical rigor and logical
purity?
How can we know the same?
Filtering Mechanism
Action
Move from the definition of Action
Action, by definition, is something that is
brought about Intentionally.
The explicit from of Intention is what we name as
an instance of an action.
An action is an outcome/ realization of something
which was in an implicit form within Mind.
Why makes Intention important across all
happenings?
Importance of Intention
What is left over, if I subtract
the fact that my arm goes up from
the fact that I raised my arm?
-: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, 1953, 621, P
161
Importance of Intention
That bisects the world of changes into two parts.
That differentiates Actions from the Events.
That keeps apart the mere Bodily Behaviors
from the behaviors that makes an action
possible.
That draws a dividing line between
answerability and un-answerability.
the
Because
We are social beings by the very existence.
Where the gregarious instinct is very much there.
We perform Inter-dependent actions, apart from doing our Independent actions.
Involvement in Inter-dependent actions by performing Independent actions.
By sharing a public place with others under a common goal.
Keeping individuality and individual goal(s) aside, plunging into
commonality.
Becoming a part of that shared intention for the betterment of
that group where he/she hails from.
Instances
Case 1: Realization of the intention of X through the
action of Y.
Case 2: Realization of Intention of an Atrocious King
through the actions his/her soldiers.
Case 3: Realization of same intention of great number
of people at a particular place.
Case 4: Realization of the intention of the country
through the actions of Soldiers.
Case 5: Realization of the Intention of a group through
the Ignorant People.
How this gap would be abridged?
Key Points
Internal Evaluative Mechanism
Collective Agential Ability
Joint Commitment
Joint Commitment
Commitment is a matter of will to commit to the Community.
Members are jointly committed to one another.
Plurality of individual wills intermingle to form a single will.
A single commitment is committed for the same intended
goal.
Members are jointly committed to one another.
Each one is supposedly obliged to do his/her part of the
collective action to make it the case that they all act as a
single body.
Mutual reliance and expectation would ensue from this
commitment.