Book contents
- Conceptualizing International Practices
- Conceptualizing International Practices
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Introduction: Conversations and the Evolution of Practice Theorizing
- Part II Key Concepts of IR Scholarship
- Part III Innovative Concepts
- Part IV Conclusion: The Future of Practice Theorizing
- 11 Practices and a ‘Theory’ of Action? Some Conceptual Issues Concerning Ends, Reasons and Happiness
- 12 Conclusion
- References
- Index
12 - Conclusion
Concepts and the Future of International Practice Theorizing
from Part IV - Conclusion: The Future of Practice Theorizing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- Conceptualizing International Practices
- Conceptualizing International Practices
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Introduction: Conversations and the Evolution of Practice Theorizing
- Part II Key Concepts of IR Scholarship
- Part III Innovative Concepts
- Part IV Conclusion: The Future of Practice Theorizing
- 11 Practices and a ‘Theory’ of Action? Some Conceptual Issues Concerning Ends, Reasons and Happiness
- 12 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Taking such a stance inevitably shifts the analysis towards production or some soteriological notion of knowledge. Instead, I point to the relevant issues of practical choices: situations (which are not just exhausted by known distributions or unreflected habits or routines but which require constant attention to surprises) to the temporality of choice in which present, past, and future interact that explode the intentional paradigm of action) and the issues of judgement (Kant’s Urteilskraft), which is a critical ability but does not coincide with algorithms or of testing theoretical propositions but which can be acquired only by acting within the social world, or as Hume had it is acquired by ‘commerce and conversation’ rather than by observation from an ideal standpoint.
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- Conceptualizing International PracticesDirections for the Practice Turn in International Relations, pp. 260 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022