Questions tagged [intention]

I need help with a practical question about intention and action. I had a brownie. I decided to eat half a brownie now, and save half for later. Then, a few moments after making that decision, I found myself finishing the very last bite of the whole…

Reading about the philosophy of action here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(philosophy) I am finding it difficult to distinguish between the two. What is meant by intention and how is it different from volition? I'm trying to understand what…

I know the question some how tricky if not even boring, but the other day during a conference about Guido Reni and Caravaggio’s Saint Peter a group of scholars were discussing if a philological reading of the two painting were more correct over the…

In both professional and personal life, we tend to meet people who can be quite blunt in being honest. I do not have any historical example to support this claim but it probably happens, mostly in organizations where we are at loggerheads with our…