Emoreason: At the Heart of the Dilemma between Theories of Action and a Relational Approach
Theories of action often refer to the thesis of a procedural or bounded rationality, thesis that they have integrated, to reject any blame put on their modelization, in particular to protect themselves against the objection of not being able to take into consideration human emotions. When we submit to criticism that thesis, we quickly realize that it is not in a position to be used as a shield, for the modelization remain focused on rationality and on its corollaries: consciousness, intention, strategy, freedom and interest. We indeed discover that theories of action do not have access to fundamental characteristics of human being such as dialectics of reason and emotion, of consciousness and unconscious, of freedom and determination.