Actions, habits and forms of life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8976013
AutoresDaniel Rueda Garrido (0000-0002-9338-8061, Cultural studies and Philosophy Hebei Normal University China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen50
Número3
Páginas321-334
Fecha de publicación2020-01-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jtsb.12236
OpenAlexW3003659150
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

After a survey on the work of prominent philosophers within the Western tradition, it can be noticed a tendency to view habits as automatic, unfree and unconscious behaviour. In this context, this article attempts to show that habits are actually much closer to the characteristics that are otherwise attributed to actions. That is, following the dialectical approach of Sartre, I develop arguments to support that habits are conscious actions carried out with a sense of identification towards the form of life that actions, in turn, project as a whole; in this way, each form of life requires a set of habits that the agent performs freely and rationally, understanding the latter as the dialectical procedure by which the act itself brings about a totalizing identity. This vision implies that habits are interrelated and codependent within a network of social behavior, so they cannot be discarded without discarding the form of life to which they belong. That is, a change of habit requires a change in the totality of which it is a part. But that change can only occur if social agents become aware that their habits are a product of their free acceptance and not of necessity. In the article, this latter is paradigmatically exemplified by neoliberal capitalism as a form of life

Aesthetics · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Everyday life · Habit · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · History · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Social Psychology