UN LIVRE UTILE 55

February 8th 2005

“…purposiveness may be viewed in a somewhat different light by asking whether it is not merely an intellectual construct that man imputes to himself by reason of his vain addiction to the free-will doctrine as he searches for characteristics which distinguish him from physical matter and the lower animals.”

“Obviously, we are using the terms ends, goals, and purposes in two rather distinct ways; one refers to those which are consciously uniseized(?) and more or less rationnaly pursued, and the other to those which the actor has little knowledge but toward which he is nevertheless propelled.”

David Singer p.85

The level of analysis problem in the international system. 1961

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