Davidson Rationalization

The philosopher Donald Davidson argues about the significance of intentional action, and how it relates to reasons and rationalization. According to Davidson, action and intentional action are not the same, so action in general refers to the action that is practiced with intention for an action. While intentional action is an action for a reason and under certain descriptions. In fact, for Davison, action in general and intentional action at some point both have a reason for acting even thought is not stated. Thus, the philosopher states that action or intentional actions have to be under some descriptions meaning that the action is descripted in a way it fits into a familiar picture. G. Anscombe explains that all actions have an intention …show more content…
The primary reason does not only needs a desire or a pro attitude for doing the action, but the belief also cannot just be any belief but it has to reflect that it related to the reason why we perform the action. Davidson talks about rationalization as a term in which it is defined as causal explanation. He says that we need to rationalize in order to process an intentional action. The expectation in rationalization is what signals about whether the agent’s action is intelligible. One way that rationality is presented; the cause need of a belief or a desire in which the action is reasonable. In deep, rationalization concord with the primary reasons. Davidson articulates the argument that rationalizations are causal explanations, the following are important idea to answer the question why we perform certain …show more content…
Davidson is very detailed and precise about his argument that an action must be under certain description. Meaning that it needs to have reasons, causes, in which the action is respond correctly not just act at once, or be rationalize. Understanding the action of theory is not something that is easy. In fact, theory of action is very complex, and there are a lot of point of view about the action theory. The reason why an action is so complex is because the theory of action can develop further steps, in the progress of analysis the meaning of acting. Davidson construct rules to define theory of action, it changes the way some people think about action, it may make other people to think about action. He built the theory of action based on the theorist G. E. M. Anscombe, she observed certain ideas in which Davidson developed later. They may build a bone between their ideas, but some of their ideas are not exactly the same. How different Anscome and Davidson point of view about actions are? From my point of view, Anscombe develops an extremely unique and reasonable idea about action. However, from my view point, Davidson and Anscombe direct us to the same conclusion. The theory of action should be about what the actual