Action for the Sake of Caring and the Rationality of (Social) Action

My aim is to understand at least some of the non-instrumental reasons we can have for action in a way that can provide a satisfying non-egoist account of ‘social actions’-actions undertaken for the sake of others. I do this in part by presenting, in terms of a discussion of the rationality of emotions, an account of what it is for something to have import to an agent (or, what amounts to the same thing, of what it is to care about that thing). I then extend this account to include our caring about others as agents, in part by revealing the way in which one’s emotional and desiderative responsiveness to another agent one cares about must be sensitive to her cares, so that one comes to share her cares. The upshot is substantial revision in our understanding of agency, both in terms of our understanding of the role emotions play in our agency and in terms of a careful extension of the scope of practical rationality to include what I call a ‘rationality of import’

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethical egoism · Extension (predicate logic · Rationality · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

• The forms of social engagement regarding the subject of import

  Open Access•Igor Cvejić•Filozofija i drustvo•2016

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