Social ontology : recasting political philosophy through a phenomenology of whoness / / Michael Eldred

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464279703321
• Autore: Eldred Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frankfurt : , : Ontos Verlag, , 2008
• ISBN: 3-11-033327-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (704 p.)
• Disciplina: 300.1
• Soggetti: Philosophical anthropology; Political science - Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of contents -- 1 By way of introduction - Precious little -- 2 Loosening the ground: Thinking about society, thinking society -- 3 Further outline of the phenomenon of whoness -- 4 The satisfaction of wants and the striving to have more -- 5 Metaphysics of exchange -- 6 Justice -- 7 Interlude with some intermediate conclusions: Everyday living of finite human beings - Security and insecurity -- 8 The short reach of Cartesian certainty and Leibniz' principle of reason into the social science of economics -- 9 Reified social relations, the visible and the invisible hand -- 10 Social power and government -- 11 The ontological constitution of 'we ourselves' -- 12 Government and the state -- 13 Relations among states and the global power play among peoples
• Sommario/riassunto: Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of the present inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. We human beings strive to become who we are in an ongoing power interplay with each other. Thinkers called as witnesses include Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Protagoras, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.