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The Vulnerability of Action
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The concept of the perfect agent has been used in the context of action and agency in the Church as discussed by the authors, where it is claimed that there is a perfect agent who never fails, who accomplishes all and everything he sets out to do.Abstract:
Human agents, unless they be crazed by some impediment of mind, are usually all too painfully aware of the risks inherent in their task of exercising agency. We are vulnerable as we act to forces not fully within our control, to unsound judgements which we ourselves make, and to the limits of our own reach which we sometimes miss or ignore. However, it is common enough in orthodox Christian circles, when transposing the concepts of action and agency to the divine, to remove the element of risk which so closely accompanies our own experience of action. God, it is claimed, is the perfect agent – who never fails – who accomplishes all and everything he sets out to do.read more
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The self as agent
TL;DR: Macmurray's work is a philosophy of community as discussed by the authors, a philosophy that relates to many contemporary philosophical and religious concerns, as well as having a bearing on current historical/sociological, political, and feminist critiques of contemporary American society.