The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and PoliticsOxford University Press, 18 квіт. 1996 р. - 400 стор. 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. |
Зміст
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Thought | 54 |
Preview | 111 |
For Individualism against Collectivism | 117 |
For Holism against Atomism | 165 |
Preview | 217 |
Social Theory | 228 |
Political Theory | 284 |
A Common Mind in Three Senses | 340 |
References | 357 |
Index | 371 |
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Сторінка 267 - Nature, when she formed man for society, endowed him with an original desire to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren.
Сторінка 167 - For besides sense, and thoughts, and the train of thoughts, the mind of man has no other motion; though by the help of speech and method, the same faculties may be improved to such a height, as to distinguish men from all other living creatures.
Сторінка 319 - By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Сторінка 269 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Сторінка 169 - The claim is that living in a society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality, in some sense of this property, or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term, or of becoming a fully responsible, autonomous being.
Сторінка 385 - Administration at the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. He is the director of research for the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).
Сторінка 319 - ... personal liberty is security against a certain species of injury which affects the person ; whilst, as to political liberty, it is another branch of security — security against the injustice of the members of the Government.
Сторінка 131 - ... etc. These currents are plainly social facts. At first sight they seem inseparable from the forms they take in individual cases. But statistics furnish us with the means of isolating them.
Сторінка 133 - subjects" (in the sense of constitutive subjects of the process) are therefore not these occupants or functionaries, are not, despite all appearances, the "obviousness" of the "given" of naive anthropology, "concrete individuals", "real men" — but the definition and distribution of these places and functions. The true "subjects" are these definers and distributors; the relations of production (and political and ideological social relations).
Сторінка 157 - Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catchphrases, clothes, fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
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