Towards a Theory of Action

Abstract

We tend to think only in terms of man acting upon the inanimate world. If one is dealing with things or numbers then laws may be deduced, equations derived and, if the right question is asked, the correct answer will come. This is the technology of science, but what one has to remember is that science has for its object — things. It can bring to bear the force of the ‘big machines’, the strength of the trained and gifted individual, but what it cannot do is to unleash power.

Citation

Egan, W. (1975), "Towards a Theory of Action", Personnel Review, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055290