02873nam 2200541 450 991078898030332120230124191816.03-11-033327-910.1515/9783110333275(CKB)3390000000033052(EBL)1195527(MiAaPQ)EBC1195527(DE-B1597)213172(OCoLC)870589918(OCoLC)885389981(DE-B1597)9783110333275(Au-PeEL)EBL1195527(CaPaEBR)ebr10838312(CaONFJC)MIL574270(EXLCZ)99339000000003305220140221d2008 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSocial ontology recasting political philosophy through a phenomenology of whoness /Michael EldredFrankfurt :Ontos Verlag,2008.1 online resource (704 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-43019-4 3-11-033307-4 Includes bibliographical references.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 peoplesFreedom, 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.Philosophical anthropologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyPhilosophical anthropology.Political sciencePhilosophy.300.1Eldred Michael1499430MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788980303321Social ontology3793209UNINA