The reality of the social world : Medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology / Jenny Pelletier, Christian Rode, editors.
Pelletier, Jenny E., editor.; Rode, Christian, 1970- editor.
2023
B808.5 .R43 2023
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Title
The reality of the social world : Medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology / Jenny Pelletier, Christian Rode, editors.
ISBN
9783031239847 electronic book
3031239849 electronic book
9783031239830
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23984-7
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Cham : Springer, 2023.
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-031-23984-7 doi
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B808.5 .R43 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
146/.4
Summary
This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology. Since the 1990s, social ontology has emerged as a vibrant research area in contemporary analytical philosophy. Questions concerning the nature and properties of social groups, institutions, facts, and objects like money and marriage, have been thoroughly discussed. However, the historical perspective has been largely neglected. One of the central aims of this volume is to show that relevant views on social ontology can be found in medieval and early modern philosophy (ca. 1200-1700 C.E.), when, for example, the ontological status of money, law, and the sacraments was hotly debated. We see, furthermore, diverging positions between Aristotelian-inspired authors, who resort to a more naturalistic view of the emergence of the social realm, and authors like Olivi and Ockham, who emphasize the role of human free will and contractualist agreements. This book is the very first to address historical and contemporary social ontologies. Both historians of philosophy and philosophers will benefit from this juxtaposition, which fosters a better understanding of historical positions and approaches by using today's conceptual and analytical tools, and allows the contemporary debate to gain new perspectives by confronting its own medieval and early modern history.
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Pelletier, Jenny E., editor.
Rode, Christian, 1970- editor.
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Historical-analytical studies on nature, mind and action ; v. 12. 2509-4807
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Introduction
Part 1. Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on Issues in Social Ontology
Chapter 1. Thomas Aquinas on the Ontology of the Political Community (Fabrizio Amerini)
Chapter 2. Ontology of Power Relations in Peter Olivi (Juhana Toivanen)
Chapter 3. Transgressing the Pact of Meanings: Social Implications of Peter John Olivi's Theory of Signification (Claudia Appolloni)
Chapter 4. Enrico del Carretto on Social Ontology and Especially Why A Religious Order is not a Mere Collection of Individuals (Roberto Lambertini)
Chapter 5. William of Ockham on Social Objects (in His Academic Writings) (Magali Roques)
Chapter 6. Spinoza on the Ontology of Justice: The Role of 'Beings of Reason' (Entia Rationis) (Michael Rosenthal)
Chapter 7. Constituents of Social Life in the Political Philosophy of Johannes Althusius (Jukka Ruokanen)
Part 2. Contemporary Issues
Chapter 8. Social Entities without Explicit Establishment (Ludger Jansen)
Chapter 9. From Legal Fiction to Collective Agency : Arguments for Collective Personhood in Contemporary Social Ontology (Onni Hirvonen)
Part 3. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Dialogue
Chapter 10. Cooperation, Community, and Institution (Falk Hamann)
Chapter 11. Between Scotus and Searle: Powers, Contingency and Institutions (Michaël Bauwens)
Chapter 12. Power and Violence. On the Ontology of Legitimate Power in Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Luis de Molina (1535-1600) (Danae Simmermacher)
Chapter 13. Life Experience instead of Consciousness. On the Ontological Conceptualisation of the Social (Stephan Zimmermann).

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