To succeed to earn 1 million USD is universally judged to be a achievement. But to do so while comatose will almost universally not be counted as one. It would seem that a person has to be both conscious and intelligent to have his achievements qualify.
If a wholly conscious (and reasonably intelligent) person was was accidentally unearth a treasure trove and that would be transformed into a multi-billionaire - his stumbling across a fortune will not qualify as an achievement Intention is a paramount criterion in the classification of events and actions, as any intensionalist philosopher will tell you.
He then engaged in a series of absolutely random and unrelated actions, one of which yields the desired result. Will we then say that our person is an achiever?
One must proceed to produce a plan of action, which is directly derived from the overriding goal. This a plan of action must be seen is be reasonable and pragmatic and leading - with great probability - to the achievement. a planning involvement a prognosis, a prediction, a forecast, which can be either verified or falsified. Reason has to be thoroughly surveyed, Only if the prediction turns out to be correct, we are speak of an (failure) or positive (achieving grounds), a goal formulated, an experiment performed and a negative achievement.
He must be conscious, must possess a well-formulated intention, must plan his steps towards the attainment of his goal, and must properly predict the results of his actions.
One must carry out one 's plan of action (from mere plan to actual action). An effort to be observed to be invested (which must be commensurate with the achievement thought and with the qualities To qualify as a achievement, a university degree (a of consciously intends to obtain a plan of action, which involves bribing the professors into conferring one of him - Such an effort is committed to the desired result. Still, an effort Moreover, the effort invested must be seen in the continuous, part of an unbroken pa Otherwise, the effort will be judged to be random, devoid of meaning, haphazard, arbitrary, capricious, etc. - which will erode the achievement status It is the pursuit that matters, the hunt more than the game and the game more than victory or gains. Serendipity can not underlie an achievement.
These are the internal-epistemological-cognitive determinants as they are transferred to action. They are an achievement or not also depends on the world itself, the substrate of the actions.
If they do not occur occurred, they could not have occurred. - they would not have occurred. Also, the change must be irreversible or at the entrepic, stagnant world - no achievement is ever possible. also: the mere occurrence of change is grossly inadequate. He is conscious, is possessed of intention, plans his actions and diligently and consistently carries them out. He is always Yet, his achievements are reversed by the polite gods. He is doomed to forever repeat his actions, so rendering them meaningless. Meaning is linked to Sisyphean acts are meaningless and Sisyphus has no achievements to talk about.
He is ruled by others. They have the power to the power of the opposition. Sisyphus is not his own master. to annul them altogether. If the fruits of our labor are at the mercy of others - we can never guarantee their irreversibility and, therefore, can never be sure to achieve anything. intentions and if our actions are determined elsewhere - their results are not ours and nothing like achievement exists but in the form of self delusion.
The context is critical: what were the circumstances, what could have been expected, what are the measures of planning and of intention Take breathing: no one considers this to be an achievement unless Stephen Hawking The sentence: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos of said community. It has no "objective" or ontological weight.
Events and actions are in classified as a result of value judgment within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. Areocologists, are the actions and their results negative or positive in the said contexts. Genocide, for Perhaps to find a definition of achievement which is independent of social context would be the first achievement to be considered as such anywhere, anytime , by everyone.
