Contents -- Introduction -- Part One The Representation of Life -- 1 Introductory -- 2 Can Life Be Given a Real Definition? -- 3 The Representation of the Living Individual -- 4 The Representation of the Life-Form Itself -- Part Two Naive Action Theory -- 5 Introductory -- 6 Types of Practical Explanation -- 7 Naive Explanation of Action -- 8 Action and Time -- Part Three Practical Generality -- 9 Two Tendencies in Practical Philosophy -- 10 Practices and Dispositions as Sources of the Goodness of Individual Actions -- 11 Practice and Disposition as Sources of Individual Action -- Acknowledgments -- Index.