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Native powers and their realizations form a continuum, ranging from controlled responses, habitual reactions, stylized and conventional routines, primary intentional actions to preconceived and articulated intentional actions, in their variety. A living, active agent will be doing some thing of various or these types at any point it its active life. I have been engaged throughout these chapters in articulating a theory around these claims. And I have claimed that one can fruitfully formulate and answer some of the questions in the philosophy of action from the resulting activist, naturalist perspective.
The faculty which a being has of acting according to its ideas is LIFE.
Kant
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Gustafson, D.F. (1986). Overview. In: Intention and Agency. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4520-3_12
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