What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?

Goals are often set as part of clusters of goals. On the assumption that goals are set because we want to achieve them it is interesting to study not only the conditions under which individual goals are rational (functional) but also the factors that combine to determine the rationality of a goal s...

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Main Author: Karin Edvardsson Björnberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/969
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description Goals are often set as part of clusters of goals. On the assumption that goals are set because we want to achieve them it is interesting to study not only the conditions under which individual goals are rational (functional) but also the factors that combine to determine the rationality of a goal system. This paper argues that to be rational goal systems ought to be coherent, at least to some degree. The paper provides an analysis of goal system coherence and discusses to what extent goal conflicts are problematic from an action-guiding viewpoint.
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spelling doaj-art-df8da03bdd7e46df8d75dc4b4d2989c52025-08-20T02:41:07ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Crítica0011-15031870-49052019-01-014112110.22201/iifs.18704905e.2009.969What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?Karin Edvardsson Björnberg Goals are often set as part of clusters of goals. On the assumption that goals are set because we want to achieve them it is interesting to study not only the conditions under which individual goals are rational (functional) but also the factors that combine to determine the rationality of a goal system. This paper argues that to be rational goal systems ought to be coherent, at least to some degree. The paper provides an analysis of goal system coherence and discusses to what extent goal conflicts are problematic from an action-guiding viewpoint. https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/969Goal-settingrationalitycoherenceoperationalizationgoal conflicts
spellingShingle Karin Edvardsson Björnberg
What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
Crítica
Goal-setting
rationality
coherence
operationalization
goal conflicts
title What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
title_full What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
title_fullStr What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
title_full_unstemmed What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
title_short What Relations Can Hold among Goals, and Why Does It Matter?
title_sort what relations can hold among goals and why does it matter
topic Goal-setting
rationality
coherence
operationalization
goal conflicts
url https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/969
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