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WorldImagining, to philosophy French
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John on how to tackle complex moral situations with intelligence, from 'Reconstruction in ' (1920).

Useful for shining a light on what we, individually and collectively, get right and too often tragically wrong at times like these.

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Marko,
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A good reminder of what ethics was before the weird division of theoritical/applied ethics, or the edification of the competing chapels of "deontology", aretism, etc ... No trolleys here 😂

Marko, to politicalscience French
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🤔 Is there really a need to define such an open term (beyond giving broad indications of its general function in the sociological discourse) ? It will always have blurred limits (when it comes to determining whether someone is acting or being "acted"), and when we try to give a strict definition, it will always enforce strong ontologies with very cumbersome consequences.

Marko,
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@Barros_heritage @mfi @sociology @politicalscience
For instance, one might consider the definition a fancy but sterile metaphysical move that will hinder sociological work ;-) (haha sorry for the provocation)
An alternative strategy would be to merely distanciate yourself from conceptual connotations, depending on the object you want to build ("actor" vs "agent", or "subject", or "stakeholder", or "individual", etc...) without closing the meaning with an determinate definition.

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