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Intention

Elizabeth Anscombe·1957·English

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Revives rigorous philosophical analysis of human action, asking what distinguishes something a person does intentionally from something that merely happens to them, foundational to modern action theory.

The term 'intention' is philosophically interesting because of a peculiarity: our idea of what is voluntary or intentional would shrink to something without any substance if we tried to exclude the teleological character of the descriptions.

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