Ordinary Language Philosophy
In Our Time: Philosophy
Where Are the Big Ideas?
i think part of what austin is trying to bring out by means of this endlessly detailed discussion, is a much more general perception of the way in which human beings as agents are vulnerable to the way things go in the world. We have a very strong tendency to try and think of ourselves as if our own essence resides in an aspect of ourselves that's immune to the contingencies and causalities of the world. But if you actually pay attention to the sheer range and pervasiveness of the ways in which we keep on having to justify ourselves because we go wrong,. what you get is a completely an conception of agency as the kind of thing that makes us vulnerable to vicissitudes of all
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