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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1

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Action Is Not Just Giving Preference

The term unconscious, as used by praxiology, and the term subconscious, as applied by psychoanalysis, belongs to two different systems of thought and research. The murderer, whom a subconscious urge, the id, drives toward his crime, and the neurotic, whose apparrent behaviour seems to be simply meaningless to an untrained observer, both act they, like anybody else, are aiming at certain ends. Action is not simply giving preference; it always involves both taking and renunciation.

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