Reflection and Action

This work is concerned with the relation between different directions of human activity and their partial dependence on reflection. Reflection is present in activity, and this presence, with its particular character, is shown by way of analysing some prominent activities. These include work and labour, play, history, technology, and political and moral activity. The different manifestations of reflection are revealed in the exploration of reflective directions like planning, establishing norms, building orders of reality, etc. This volume is an extension of Rotenstreich's earlier book, "Theory and Practice, An Essay on Human Intentionalities" (Martinus Nijhoff, 1977), since its theme is not theory in the systematic sense, but reflection on various modes of activity in particular dualities.