On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
Hope, writes the moral philosopher Kieran Setiya,18 “keeps the flicker of potential agency alive.”
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we can’t do very much to stop the world’s problems, it’s unsurprising that they’d be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in “Failure to Cop
... See moreNadia Asparouhova • Cultivating Agency
Agency can be formally defined as the subjective feeling of having control over one’s actions and their consequences…Put differently, you don’t feel as though life is just happening to you, with your only choice being to sit back and accept it all. Instead, you feel as though you are an active participant in your life; you are making things happen.