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Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 400
Utgivningsdatum: 1996-04-18
Förlag: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198026617

Common Mind E-bok

Name: Common Mind
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Author: Philip Pettit
ISBN: 9780198026617

An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics

av Philip Pettit

E-bok (PDF, LCP), Engelska, 1996-04-18

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What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial. It holds by the holistic view that human thought requires communal resources while denying that this social connection compromises the autonomy of individuals. And, in developing the significance of this view of social subjects--this holistic individualism--it outlines a novel framework for social and political theory. Within this framework, social theory is allowed to follow any of a number of paths: space is found for intentional interpretation and decision-theoretic reconstruction, for structural explanation and rational choice derivation. But political theory is treated less ecumenically. The framework raises serious questions about contractarian and atomistic modes of thought and it points the way to a republican rethinking of liberal commitments.

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