The Phenomenology and Ecology of Acts [excerpts]

A science of actions, a praxiology, as a matter of principle tries and extracts what is general in them, independent from specific contingencies, to be able to describe the actions in global terms as beings of knowledge. The phenomenological study of action as a phenomenon emerges here as a necessary stage of such a science of actions. The term "science of actions" must be carefully delimited because it covers the totality of life itself, in any case in a "to do-society" where the human being who does not act does not exist. The theory of orders or decisions is more easily built starting from general messages and the properties of their elements than from the idea of power delegation or moral constraint. Ecology of acts will study the statistical interactions that may happen between distinct "species of acts" that can be differentiated within a certain domain in time or space.