Lexicon of Arguments

 

AU Cass 4
Action/LuhmannVsAction Theory: the concept of action is not suitable, because a participant is presupposed. - But they also exist, however, without an audience.
In principle, an action can be presented as a solitary, socially non-resonant cause.
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AU Cass 11
Action Theory: insisting on rationality - comes from Max Weber.
Action/Weber: first means and purpose must be distinguished.
>Purpose, >Purposive action.
LuhmannVsWeber: Problem: what should be excluded - is a certain action rather behavior?
Weber: more description of ideal types than of concrete reality.
Solution/today: Rational Choice Theory.
Cf. >Rational Choice.
Outside delimitation: Problem: what counts as consequences.
Internal delimitation: Solution: the actor, must ascribe the action to himself.
Problem: what counts as a motive?
>Motives.
LuhmannVsAction Theory: it does not clarify the contours of the concept of action. - It does not answer the question of how systems can be formed from actions, when the action is consolidated psychologically and biologically in the individual.
Cf. >Action systems/Luhmann,
>Action theory.