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Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens
Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/97520 Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens Wolff, Ernst alvaraschellingerhout@gmail.com Carstens, Jana Alvara UCTD Complacency Paul Ricoeur Anthony Giddens Theoretical Approach Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2019. In this work I make sense of complacency through an action theoretical perspective based on the action theories of Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens. Even though complacency is a prevalent phenomenon, there is hardly any philosophical, sociological, and anthropological research on complacency. Through my research on complacency, I thus start to fill this research-lacuna. Moreover, by describing complacency as action, I do not take the conventional approaches of assuming that complacency is a vice or a purely psychological phenomenon. In order to describe complacency as action, I first clarify what complacency is by disambiguating ‘complacency’ through an analytic approach. In doing so, I arrive at a working analytical definition of complacency. I call this a ‘working’ definition, since this definition provides semantic stability while I discuss complacency as action. A working definition further provides analytical guidance as I navigate the action theories of Ricoeur and Giddens, and extract from their action theories the necessary action theoretical elements that are specific to complacent action. Through the above analysis-action theory dialectic, I am able to determine that complacent action – as a continuous flow of action – is characterised by the (conceptual) action-components of (i) awareness and (ii) care about matter x, (iii) in conjunction with acts that contradict the agent’s acts of care about matter x, (iv) where both the acts of care and the acts that contradict these acts of care (about matter x) are wrongly evaluated by the agent as being congruous or in line with the agent’s care about matter x. These incorrect evaluative acts are due to the fault of the agent. The final action-constituent of complacent action is (iv) the act of self-satisfaction, where self-satisfaction ‘causes’ or maintains the other action-components of complacency. Philosophy PhD (Philosophy) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-08-08T08:05:55Z 2024-08-08T08:05:55Z 2020-04 2019-05 Thesis * A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97520 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Complacency Paul Ricoeur Anthony Giddens Theoretical Approach Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title | Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title_full | Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title_fullStr | Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title_short | Complacency : an action theoretical approach via Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens |
| title_sort | complacency an action theoretical approach via paul ricoeur and anthony giddens |
| topic | UCTD Complacency Paul Ricoeur Anthony Giddens Theoretical Approach |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97520 |