Agency, Patiency, and Personhood

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 200-208

  Reader, Soran ^a,b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Ethical Philosophy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'other side' of action passivity which action presupposes, and the sufferings which doings involve; Action and passivity, central to agential conception of persons persons act not merely in the broad sense in which animals and machines act; Agency, patiency and personhood; Capability incapability and need equally central to agential conception of a person, focus on capability; Choice, rationality and freedom constraint; Denial of victimhood impacting asymmetrically on two sexes; Independence and dependency agential conception, committing us further to the idea that persons are independent; Need to overcome philosophical fear of passivity giving ethical recognition to each other as abject victims; Personhood as passive being accepted in epistemology concept of 'world' of something given to, or inflicted upon us; Twin features of patiency that we suffer both as agents and as patients, inalienable, pervasive, and important in human social life

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EID: 84886039284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323528.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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