(Badiou appears in Godard's most recent film, "Film Socialisme," in a sequence about Jewish identity. I discussed Godard's self-proclaimed isolation and its role in such reflections here).
Uncovering the taken-for-granted assumptions which underlie professionals' decisions in relation to safety and risk is one way in which such reflection could guide local improvements in patient safety.
Various responses to this problem have been made, for the most part involving the addition of conditions concerning the manner in which such reflection must be made, for example that it must be free of certain distorting factors itself, it must reflect an adequate causal history, and the like (Christman 1991, Mele 1995).
As was seen in section 1, such reflection addresses an agent's reasons for acting in one way or another; conclusions about such reasons are characteristically couched in evaluative terms, as claims about what it would be good to do, or as normative conclusions about the actions that one ought to perform.
In undergraduate nursing education, such reflection involves a process of understanding of theoretical knowledge in relation to clinical nursing practice.
They claim that autonomy is achieved when the agent undergoes, or has the capacity to undergo, an internal intellectual process of reflecting on her motivations, beliefs, and values, and then revising her preferences in the light of such reflection.
But once we have certain commitments, as every person does at the time at which he begins to reflect on them, our rational faculties are the only tools for exploring them, though not in the expectation that such reflection can be expected to produce meanings that will convince all rational beings to commit themselves to such a practice.
And in a fine paradox, it is precisely such reflection that stirs in the reader a desire to make these fictional characters "real", to say, in effect, to the authors: "I know that they are only fictional - you keep on telling me this.
In linking such reflections to Ho's doomed efforts to secure American support, Mr. Wellman seems to be suggesting that, in the tense postwar atmosphere in Indochina, new shoots of idealism that might have been nurtured were allowed to wither when more cynical political considerations came to the fore.
