(April 10, 2023 at 1:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think that the notion of disinterested volition is incoherent - which will lead to all sorts of trouble without a doubt.
However, within the context of the question, I'd say no. The full set of interested act is not exhausted by the subsets of transactional relationships or self interested acts or both combined. Consider a situation in life (if you can) where you decided on some course of action that you neither expected anything in return for, or in fact expected a negative return for. Something...perhaps.... that you did not want to do, but felt compelled to do. This subset evades not only transactional relationships, but self interest as well.
Self interest and transaction are, ultimately, easy to resolve in singular fields. They're not dilemmas. That we spend a great deal of our life running essentially on autopilot in a thick soup of such circumstances is only interesting in the confluence and conflicts between them. In the presentation of more complex decision fields. The type of decision field our most pernicious dilemmas occupy is a subset of all fields itself - the exclusively suboptimal. Where all possible resolutions to a given x are negatively weighted...where no single explanation for a given decision can satisfy. Otherwise, there'd be no underlying dilemma or conflict to explain in the first place, eh?
I challenge the contention that you would be motivated to make a decision on a course of action at all if you truly expect no return of any sort from it.
