Category: Good Action Triangle

Pragmatism must be constrained by ethics or the action cannot be good. Compromise is often inherent in this process – this may undermine both the effectiveness and / or the goodness of the action.

Action should always be informed by pragmatism – otherwise it is self-indulgent waste. In acting we select a tool and apply it. The tool has to be right for the job. Experience may tell us a tool will work, or we may “test the fit” to the job. In either case we must be open…

A one level action cannot be avoided even if it is inaction (see Can’t Change the World). However Action, as I use it here, points towards free will – the possibility of choice and an escape from the tyranny of stimulus and response. It is also used in contrast to contemplation – which has its…