Talk:Instrumental and value-rational action

Potential duplicate

Hi all - noticed a potential dupe at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_and_value_rationality Cgoecknerwald (talk) 17:54, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Why delete this page?

I will soon propose deleting this page for the following reasons. 1) It has been without talk or revision for years. 2) I will soon propose a page on instrumental rationality that covers much of the content here.TBR-qed (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Major revision

I am posting a revision of this article, merged with Value-rational action to be renamed Instrumental action and Value-rational action. Please give me several days before critiquing.TBR-qed (talk) 17:24, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Revision complete

I have finished revising, and welcome comments.TBR-qed (talk) 16:07, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Essay-like

The article should be less essay-like (see WP:SYNTH) and cover more recent sources like the following: Honneth, Axel: "Work and Instrumental Action" (1982), and Scott, Alan: "Modernity's Machine Metaphor" (1997). Right now the most recent source cited is The Theory of Communicative Action (1981). --Omnipaedista (talk) 23:09, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

This seems to me rather less essay-like than this version before the recent set of revisions. But it could stand to be more of a reveiw of the published sources on this topic. Statements such as Dewey's challenge to Weber's separation between instrumental and value-rational action remains unanswered. The distinction persists in both common sense and scholarly explanations of human behavior. are opnions or judgemetns and should be cited to a source that expresses them, or left out. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:52, 3 December 2019 (UTC)