>I may be missing something - but is not "motive" in the context of
>AT referring to the collective rather than the individual per se. If
>we got the hunt or whatever it seems it is not this individual
>object or motive but a collective one.
Nate, I would see it as both, in the way Klaus Holzkamp described it.
Our individual motives are mediated by, and a subset of all possible
motives in the society--appropriated through a process of
internalization that others have described...
Holzkamp suggested that it is only when we realize that our own
motives (actions...) are a restricted subset of all possible motives
that we create new opportunities for action... therefore change,
development.
If we do not realize the mediated nature, we will not be able to deal
with the mediational nature that society plays, and therefore attempt
to deal with contradictions personally rather than attempting
articulate them in terms of their mediated nature and therefore to
bring about more systemic change...
Michael
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