Social Ontology:
Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness
Michael Eldred
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Ontology : Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness
2008 Hardback xiv + 688 pp., ISBN 978-3-938793-78-7 and as an e-book (including
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Freedom,
value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of this
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,
Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer,
Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.
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