title: PHENOMENOLOGY OF POLITICAL ACTION
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metadata.value: SOBOLEVA, MAJA
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-07-07T20:32:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-07-07T20:32:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: SOBOLEVA M. PHENOMENOLOGY OF POLITICAL ACTION. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2022, vol. 11 issue 1, pp. 402–420.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2022-11-402-420
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37093
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article focuses on a phenomenological study of political action. The analysis includes three directions:
  the concept of action, paradigms that determine political actions, and the purpose of action. In
  the analysis of action, I first use the distinction between the concepts of “act” and “operate.” “To act”
  means a conscious, deliberate, rational action. In contrast, “operate” means to behave unconsciously,
  mechanically or automatically, passively or instinctively. The political implications of the distinction
  between an “acting” and “operating” person can be formulated in the terms “freedom of action” and
  “coercion to operate,” and the latter can be used as a criterion for determining the type of social system,
  as well as for evaluating the correlated psychological state of society. As the next step, I analyse
  the action as a process and a result. I argue that in the social sphere, action appears as the sum of these
  moments, and the social sphere is a derivate of action. The last aspect of the analysis of action is responsibility.
  I claim that responsibility can be interpreted as the awareness and recognition by the individual
  of her role in history. The second part of the work is the study of paradigms and rules of political action
  in so-called open and closed societies. I claim that political action within the framework of an open
  society is limited only by legislation. In a closed society, political action is practically impossible: citizens
  do not act, but “operate” since there are no conditions for actions. After that, I analyse the role of
  social myths as a factor affecting people’s political activities. In the last part, I analyse the ultimate goal
  of political action. Traditionally, political philosophy assumes that the goals of politics are exhausted
  by the problems of relationship between the state and the individual. However, based on the theory of
  Hannah Arendt, it is possible to formulate the task of political action as the achievement of humanism
  in a human being, taken not in her relation to the state but in relation to herself. I argue that the minimal
  political action that can be qualified as humanism consists of the ability and courage to use one’s
  own mind.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 11; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political action
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: act
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: operate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: responsibility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: paradigms of action
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social myth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: purpose of action
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: PHENOMENOLOGY OF POLITICAL ACTION
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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