Will and Volition: Personal Conditions of Possibility of Being an Agent

Will is a very old important philosophical concept, an analysis of which is very specific, if not odd, comparatively with the others (when it fruitfully proceeds in terms of criteria). This concept (‘will’) is going to be used to provide and clarify conditions of possibility for person of being an agent. In doing that I refer to the correspondent pieces of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations; and to their interpretations by M. Alvarez in “Wittgenstein on Action and Will” (2009) and D. K. Levy in “Morality without Agency” (2017). Person is essentially constituted by ‘powerless’ will in terms of ‘understanding’ that is experienced during her life. Action depends on and manifests understanding by will of a personal attitude to some states of affairs. Will does not incline a person to particular desires about preferable states of affairs or actions. Will is not about states of affairs. By willing I value the world, its portions, they appear significant, important to me. Volition is treated as related to will. Both are personal conditions of being an agent with priority of agency as capacity realized by rational actions.

COUNTERMEASURE POLICY ON MINING CRIME UNDER THE LEGAL PROGRESSIVE PERCEPTIVE

<em>The complexity of mining business governance affects rational actions to tackle mining crime using the criminal policies in a progressive legal dimension. This research focuses on dealing with mining crime using criminal policies and rational efforts in the progressive legal dimension. It was conducted using normative legal research method using secondary data obtained from primary and secondary legal materials. The urgency of this research is to provide guidance towards the application of appropriate rules of mining for the actors in the business. It was also directed to provide references in mining law enforcement through an integral policy. The results showed that criminal policy through penal means in the formulation stage has the ability to regulate licensing crimes, corporate crimes, crimes against reclamation, and criminal obstruction of mining businesses. Moreover, the application stage involves the legal construction of material and formal offenses while the execution stage requires integral law enforcement. It is also important to note that the non-penal means which focuses on prevention maps potential actors with the ability to create the victims while the secondary prevention maps the mining areas with potential conflicts. This means the progressiveness of mining criminal policies rationally in the progressive law dimension enforces certainty and basic ideas underlying the norms.</em>

Consciousness of Motivated, Emotional Mind

The efficient functioning of the conscious mind requires motivation. Motivations are both the source and the reason for its development and sophistication. The motivation for intelligent activities is usually to avoid discomfort and seek pleasure. On the other hand, the implementation of complex life plans and the feeling of higher mental states requires motivation through curiosity and through a desire to learn and discover something new. A mind equipped with cognitive awareness has the ability to observe and assess the effects of its actions on the environment. Creating complex mental representations associating actions with distant impressions and effects allows for their emotional assessment. If bodily experiences are to give meaning to what an individual perceives and remembers, then he must be able to assess the value of his experiences for his own good. Using these experiences and learned knowledge an intelligent system gains the ability to take rational actions to achieve its goals, feel the pain and pleasure resulting from such actions, be sensitive to effects of his actions, be conscious. The analysis of one's own situation and the choice of the optimal mode of operation can be interpreted as implementations of the system's own will. The discussion of restrictions on the choices made indicates that this will of the system is by no means free will. Conscious being decisions depend on the momentary mental states in which the mind is in the process of deciding. They depend on the content of what he has in his memory at the moment, his current mood, available knowledge, his patience for analyzing different variants of behavior and ability to act. In addition to known ontological, physical, and biological limitations, and social (for social beings), there are significant limitations related to the content and structural organization of memory, created associations and beliefs shaped by life experiences and interactions with subconscious mind. Assessing the effects of the operation, satisfying, or not satisfying the needs of the system revealed in the above way creates complex emotional states. Structures and processes leading to the creation of emotions, motivating to rational action for the broadly understood own good, constitute a model of a fully conscious, motivated, emotional mind (MEM). Is the presented model really a reductive model? Do mental states even exist? The authors try to answer these and similar questions in this chapter.

Rasionalitas Beragama Pekerja Seks Komersial (PSK)

This paper aims to explore religious rationality among prostitutes. This study is a case study with a qualitative descriptive method at the Panti Sosial Karya Wanita Andam Dewi Solok. Data was collected using in-depth interview techniques. Using Max Weber's rationality theory as an analytical tool, this study found several important findings. First, the choice to enter the world of prostitution is a rational action taken by prostitutes. The act of prostitution that is carried out is an action that is goal-oriented (instrumentally rational). Actions of prostitution are rationally strived to gain utility, either to show "himself" as a woman or as a person who is responsible in his family. Second, for prostitutes, between prostitution and religion, both are profitable. Prostitution can empower families and improve the economic sector, while religion can reduce and eliminate the sin of prostitution. Religion is not only interpreted as a doctrine that only regulates ritual aspects such as prayer, fasting and all kinds of things, but more than that religion is interpreted as an antidote for any sexual act committed in prostitution.

Pareto’s Trattato di Sociologia Generale: a behaviourist ante litteram approach

The paper deals with the changing relationship between economics and sociology in Pareto’s thought and suggests a new interpretation of this relationship. Pareto’s opus magnum in the field, the Trattato di Sociologia Generale (1916, French ed. 1917), is usually considered the result of the abandonment of economics by the late Pareto in favour of another field of interest, sociology—the realm of the analysis of non-rational actions—and on the basis of this interpretation it has been largely neglected by economists. This paper maintains that the sociology of the Trattato has to be considered not as an abandonment of interest in economics, but rather as a programme for the reconstruction and transformation of economics in a perspective that today could be called ‘behaviourist’.

KONSUMTIVISME DAN STATUS SOSIAL EKONOMI MASYARAKAT

The needs and desires to become entities, are very difficult to distinguish when examining the current economic actions of society. The community economic growth is increase, both in terms of the availability of resources (means of exchange), the availability of commodities, communication and information technology, the ease of online-based economic transactions, were being supporting factors of the economy and the needs of community. This reality presents a new social phenomenon where an increase in purchasing power is no longer oriented to value of use of an item or service, but has shifted to the symbolic meaning of the goods and services. This was observed by a French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard by analyzing a society that experienced a shift in the concept of consumption from use value to sign value. The control of consumption is significantly able to influence the rational actions of use value toward consumptive actions for other communities, and encourage the creation of socioeconomic status through the conception of a lifestyle of ownership of goods and services.Keywords: Consumivism, Economy, Status, Society.AbstrakKebutuhan dan keinginan menjadi entitas yang sangat sulit dibedakan ketika mengkaji tindakan ekonomi masyarakat saat ini. Pertumbuhan ekonomi masyarakat yang semakin meningkat baik dari aspek ketersediaan sumber daya (alat tukar), ketersediaan komoditi, teknologi komunikasi dan informasi, kemudahan dalam transaksi ekonomi berbasis online, menjadi faktor pendukung bergulirnya roda perekonomian dan pemenuhan kebutuhan dalam masyarakat. Realitas ini menghadirkan fenomena sosial baru dimana terjadi peningkatan daya beli yang bukan lagi berorientasi pada nilai guna suatu barang atau jasa, tetapi telah bergeser pada makna simbolik dari barang dan jasa tersebut. Hal tersebut diamati seorang filsuf Prancis, Jean Baudrillard dengan menganalisis masyarakat yang mengalami pergeseran konsep konsumsi dari nilai guna menjadi nilai tanda. Penguasaan konsumsi secara signifikan mampu mempengaruhi tindakan rasional bernilai guna kearah tindakan konsumtif bagi masyarakat lainnya, dan mendorong terciptanya status sosial ekonomi melalui konsepsi gaya hidup atas kepemilikan barang dan jasa.Kata Kunci : Ekonomi, Konsumtivisme, Masyarakat , Status.

PEMAKNAAN MAHASISWA TERHADAP SIMBOL PANCASILA SEBAGAI IDENTITAS BANGSA

<p>The purpose of this study is to: To find out the meaning of the Pancasila symbol in the souls of students, To find out the practice of Pancasila values on student life, To know students in responding to Pancasila towards the meaning of a nation's identity.This study uses qualitative methods through in-depth interview techniques, and direct observation. Primary data obtained from interviews. The sampling of this study was through purposive sampling.</p>The results of this study are: The meaning of students towards Pancasila based on Max Weber's theory of action can be categorized into rational values (werk rational) which are based on divine values, mutual respect, adab, and humanity, and the value of justice. Besides affective actions based on the love of water and unity, The application of Pancasila into the daily lives of students can be categorized into rational acts of values based on mutual respect and do not differentiate between religious adherents, values unity and value of deliberation to reach consensus; affective actions based on the love of the motherland; instrumental rational actions based on means of respect and tolerance to achieve peace and unity, and means of association, participation in activities in society, Student attitudes towards Pancasila as a nation's identification are categorized into rational acts of value based on values respect for differences, values of togetherness or unity; instrumental rational value actions (zwerk rational) which are based on means of deliberation to reach consensus, the struggle to achieve goals; Affective action that is based on the love of the motherland.

Inference and Its Role in Rational Action

Action, like knowledge, is portrayed in this chapter as having grounds, but neither acting nor knowing requires a basis in inference. We can view agency as information-responsive, reasons-responsive, and rational without endorsing such intellectualist views. Acting for a reason need not be reasoned action. Beliefs or perceptible cues can guide intentional action without constituting knowledge. Intentions may have wide scope and complex content, much as beliefs can have complex propositional objects, and this enables a single intention to govern multiple deeds. Rational actions, moreover, are immensely various, extending to things we do rationally, without these actions being reason-based or even intentional. Granted, learning how to do many of the important things we do, say in speaking, playing instruments, and hiking, normally requires gaining propositional knowledge along the developmental route. Nonetheless, some propositional knowledge is like a ladder that, once having climbed up on it, we can do without.