[Xmca-l] Re: Intrinsic motivation?

[Andy Blunden]

Can I just respond very briefly to your final comment concerning your 
research, using Leontyev's conception of objective motives and personal 
motives. This is the kind of dualism which I find very unhelpful.

What is an objective motive? Or to put it another way, what motive is 
there which is not personal?

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


Maria Cristina Migliore wrote:
> Andy,
>
> thank you for your comments.
>
> My whole paragraph is: "I agree that my development is not the development
> – for example - of my Institute of Research. But this is because I am
> participating in (and to) many other activities. Not because me and my
> Institute are two separated entities."
>
> That is, me and my Institute have a development which can overlap.
>
> When I talk in my email about the cultural tools developed in our
> collaborative work in my Institute, I am not referring to the issue of
> 'making up words'. I meant to refer that the development overlaps because
> my colleagues and me we have internalized the same cultural tools (however
> in a subjective way).
>
> All cows are not black for me, because I look at the personal relationship
> that each older worker (going back to my research) has with the
> motive/object of the activity. To be precise, I look at the personal sense
> of the motive.
>
> Cristina
>
>   
>