Dimensions of Actions
Before we move on to actual cases, I would like to discuss actions. There are two levels of acts:
- Subjective dimension. We say that an action comes from a person: an action is not without an actor.
- Thus we say that an action is a decision made by a person, and that person is changed and formed by those decisions. (For example, your decision to go to school today opened a number of possibilities for the day. Your decision to go to school also means that you are not at home, and cannot do certain things). We are thus limited and at the same time enriched by our decisions.
- These actions bear the stamp of our character to the extent that we have freely chosen these actions
- Objective dimension. Our actions have impact on the real world.
- Actions have consequences regardless of intentions
- It shows that human actions are not only personal but always interpersonal and social.