Through Thick and Thin: Agency as 'Taking' Perspectives

摘要

Formulating plans, making decisions, committing to a particular course of action, while perhaps not always an explicit part of the daily routine, are nevertheless a common experience in human life. Such experiences, in turn, form the basis for commonly held assumptions and expectations about human agency. That is, we all hold expectations about others' capacities for self-control and self-determination, and we even adjust accordingly when such capacities are seen as compromised or not yet fully formed.