Abstract
This article offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of prioritization, treating it as an act deeply rooted in ethics, existential choice, phenomenological experience, pragmatic reasoning, and political structures. Far from being a mere logistical tool, prioritization is shown to reflect moral commitments, express personal and collective agency, and shape our experience of the world. Engaging key thinkers such as Kant, Mill, Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, Arendt, Dewey, Fraser, and hooks, the paper explores how prioritization functions within frameworks of value, responsibility, freedom, justice, and resistance. Drawing primarily from Western philosophical traditions, this inquiry demonstrates that to prioritize is to make explicit the implicit structures of meaning and power that govern human life. The act of prioritization emerges as a site of ethical decision, ontological orientation, and political struggle.
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Dr Vinitha Mohan
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, HHMSPBNSS College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram
Received: 12-01-2018, Accepted: 27-02-2018, Published Online: 09-03-2018