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14-September-2008 12:50:19 - Agency philosophy December 2007 This article is about the philosophical concept. For other uses of the term, see agency. Agency is a philosophical concept of the capacity of an agent to act in a world. The agency is considered as belonging to that agent, even if that agent represents a fictitious character, or some other non-existent entity. The capacity to act does not at first imply a specific moral dimension to the ability to make the choice to act, therefore moral agency is a distinct concept. Contents 1 Human agency 1.1 In philosophy 2 See also 3 References Human agency See also: Action philosophy Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. It is normally contrasted to natural forces, which are causes involving only unthinking deterministic processes. In this respect, agency is subtly distinct from the concept of free will, the philosophical doctrine that our choices are not the product of causal chains, but are significantly free or determined. Human agency entails the uncontroversial, weaker claim that humans do in fact make decisions and enact them on the world. How humans come to make decisions, by free choice or other processes, is another issue. The capacity of a human to act as an agent is personal to that human, though considerations of the outcomes flowing from particular acts of human agency for us and others can then be thought to invest a moral component into a given situation wherein an agent has acted, and thus to involve moral agency. If a situation is the consequence of human decision making, persons may be under a duty to apply value judgments to the consequences of their decisions, and held to be responsible for those decisions. Human agency entitles the observer to ask should this have occurred? in a way that would be nonsensical in circumstances lacking human decisions-makers, for example, the impact of Shoemaker-Levy into Jupiter. In philosophy In certain philosophical traditions particularly those established by Hegel and Marx, human agency is a collective, historical dynamic, rather than a function arising out of individual behavior. Hegel's Geist and Marx's universal class are idealist and materialist expressions of this idea of humans treated as social beings, organized to act in concert. See also Philosophy portal Philosophy of action Rational agent References Bandura, A. 2001. Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 1-26. v d e Philosophy Eastern philosophy · Western philosophy History Ancient Buddhist · Chinese · Greek · Hellenistic · Hindu · Indian · Jain · Persian Medieval Christian · Early Islamic · Islamic · Jewish · Judeo-Islamic Modern Empiricism · Rationalism Contemporary Analytic · Continental Lists Basic topics · Topic list · Philosophers · Philosophies · Glossary · Movements · more Branches Aesthetics · Ethics · Epistemology · Logic · Metaphysics Philosophy of Action · Education · Economics · Environment · Geography · Information · Healthcare · History · Human nature · Humor · Language · Law · Literature · Mathematics · Mind · Music · Being · Philosophy · Physics · Politics · Psychology · Religion · Science · Social science · Technology · War Schools Aristotelianism · Averroism · Avicennism · Critical Theory · Cynicism · Deconstructionism · Deontology · Dialectical materialism · Dualism · Epicureanism · Epiphenomenalism · Existentialism · Functionalism · Hedonism · Hegelianism · Hermeneutics · Humanism · Idealism · Kantianism · Liberalism · Logical positivism · Marxism · Materialism · Monism · Naturalism · Neoplatonism · New Philosophers · Nihilism · Ordinary language · Particularism · Peripatetic · Phenomenology · Platonism · Positivism · Postmodernism · Poststructuralism · Pragmatism · Presocratic · Realism · Relativism · Scholasticism · Skepticism · Stoicism · Structuralism · Thomism · Utilitarianism · Virtue ethics Portal · Category listings Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Agency_philosophy Categories: Philosophical terminology | Social philosophyHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from December 2007 | All articles lacking sources Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Português This page was last modified on 31 July 2008, at 23:31
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