Throughout both of my posts, I’ve been using a nicher definition than the one given by the Stanford philosophy dictionary. In my last post, I defined it as “the ability to get what you want across different contexts – the general skill of coming up with ambitious goals [1] and actually achieving them, whatever they are.”
But, as another commenter said, the term (for me at least) is now infused with a lot of community context and implicit assumptions.
I took some of this as assumed knowledge when writing this post, so maybe that was a mistake on my part.
On the second point:
I’m a bit confused by the question. I’m not claiming that there’s an ideal amount of agency or that it should be regulated.
Saying that, I expect that some types of agency will be implicitly socially regulated. Like, if someone frequently makes requests of others in a community, other people might start to have a higher bar for saying yes. Ie, there might be some social forces pushing in the opposite direction.
I don’t think that this is what you were getting at, but I wanted to add.
Hey, thanks for asking.
On the first point:
Throughout both of my posts, I’ve been using a nicher definition than the one given by the Stanford philosophy dictionary. In my last post, I defined it as “the ability to get what you want across different contexts – the general skill of coming up with ambitious goals [1] and actually achieving them, whatever they are.”
But, as another commenter said, the term (for me at least) is now infused with a lot of community context and implicit assumptions.
I took some of this as assumed knowledge when writing this post, so maybe that was a mistake on my part.
On the second point:
I’m a bit confused by the question. I’m not claiming that there’s an ideal amount of agency or that it should be regulated.
Saying that, I expect that some types of agency will be implicitly socially regulated. Like, if someone frequently makes requests of others in a community, other people might start to have a higher bar for saying yes. Ie, there might be some social forces pushing in the opposite direction.
I don’t think that this is what you were getting at, but I wanted to add.