The Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs brings together corporation members, alumni, faculty, and undergraduate and graduate students to raise issues for deliberation and action.
(Note that "agent" here stands for an entity, usually an individual person, that is capable of deliberation and action).
(Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for the single common agent of various bits of deliberation and action).
Of course, the 70% is not a strict metric but, rather, a metaphor for the need to balance deliberation and action.
I have written before about air quality as an issue for community-centered deliberation and action, and as a place where technology fluency can change the world.
The core idea is that subjects are instructed to treat the proffered reason (say, a statutory provision, or a judicial order), in their deliberations towards choice and action, as a reason which does not simply add to the reasons they already have for acting one way rather another, but rather excludes and takes the place of some of those reasons.
If fatalism is true, then human deliberation, choice, and action are completely otiose, for what is fated will transpire no matter what one chooses to do.
We, too, are grateful for the ways you have modeled ecclesial commitment, theological rigor and have insisted that loving justice motivate our deliberations and actions.
"We need tools to enable true global deliberation and then action," Tarter said in an e-mail summarizing the workshop.
In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, we are reminded of the continuing need to nurture peace and safety through examination, deliberation, and collective action.
We should view the California Court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.
