Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / November 13, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Mar. 2010
The term decision is one that refers to the process of elaboration cognitive by which a person can choose the way to act of him and behave in different situations of life in general. The decision always involves a mental elaboration process that can be influenced by various reasons, causes and specific circumstances. The fact of making a decision is, in this way, to make a choice based on previous knowledge, feelings or feelings, prejudices or ways of think much more complex than what is supposed at first glance.
The possibility of choosing and making decisions is exclusively human and has to do with the level of conscience reached by the human being throughout his history. In this sense, man is the only living being that he can make decisions that, even if he is not conscious, imply a choice of different facts and aspects of his life. The very fact of not making a decision is making a choice and for philosophers of different periods historically, the question of decision and the possibility of choosing has always been related to that of the
Liberty, right with which other living beings such as plants or animals do not have.The decision-making process has to do in all cases with a conscious or unconscious process through which the subject acts accordingly. This means that the process of decision making It is always subjective and that is based on an accumulation of ideas, sensations, previous knowledge and assumptions that, combined from a particular way for each specific situation, make it considered appropriate to make this or that decision. Decisions can become in some cases more decisive than in other cases and that is why many times the decision-making process becomes more complex and involves various aspects to be taken in account.
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