(Ebook) Social Ontology Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness 1st Edition by Michael Eldred ISBN 3938793783 9783110333077

(Ebook) Social Ontology Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness 1st Edition by Michael Eldred ISBN 3938793783 9783110333077

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ISBN 10: 3938793783 
ISBN 13: 9783110333077
Author: Michael Eldred

Freedom, 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.

(Ebook) Social Ontology Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness 1st Table of contents:

1 By way of introduction – Precious little
2 Loosening the ground: Thinking about society, thinking society
2 i) Society, needs and wants, language
2 ii) What is lo/goj?
2 iii) Opinion: Holding things and each other to be (whatness and whoness)
2 iv) Showing oneself off as somewho
2 v) The openness of being as the enabling dimension within which society is situated
2 vi) Living well and being somewho – The need to interrogate the tradition
3 Further outline of the phenomenon of whoness
3 i) Bearing a name and standing in estimation in the community through valuing interplay
3 ii) Human social being as self-presentation and showingoff in the clearing in an interplay of esti
3 iii) Further exemplary phenomena of standing and not standing as somewho (flattery, manliness) —
3 iii) a) Digression: Dialectic of self and other – Wrestling with Plato, Hegel, Heidegger
3 iii) a) 1. Preliminary considerations when approaching Plato’s and Hegel’s dialectical thinkin
3 iii) a) 2. Approaching an existential dialectic of self and other through an interpretation of a p
3 iii) a) 3. The Hegelian dialectic of the concept, primal splitting and closing together
3 iii) a) 4. Heideggerian selfhood as a “shining-back” from being-inthe-world
3 iii) a) 5. Interpreting the dialectic of primal splitting and closing together with regard to self
4 The satisfaction of wants and the striving to have more
4 i) Economics and chrematistics
4 ii) Weber’s conception of economic activity
4 iii) The Cartesian cast of economics
4 iv) Schumpeter’s equilibrium theory
4 v) Aristotle on money and exchange — Money as medium practically unifying social usages
4 vi) Endless money-making? Economic interplay as an end in itself?
5 Metaphysics of exchange
5 i) Commodity exchange and the necessity of rethinking Aristotelean du/namij
5 ii) Productive know-how, acquisitive know-how?
5 iii) Commodity exchange not guided by the insight of know-how
5 iv) Two complementary, reciprocal pairs of duna/meij: Value and desire
5 v) The coming together of goods in commerce
5 v) a) A side-glance at Hegel’s treatment of actuality, possibility, contingency necessity and fr
5 vi) Exchange as core phenomenon of social intercourse: Interchange and interplay
5 vi) a) Reciprocally showing off who one is in relations of recognition
5 vi) b) The interplay of powers of self-presentation — engendering trust
5 vi) c) Mutual recognition: Personhood, esteem and respect, the power play over who-standing and th
6 Justice
6 i) Justice as a fundamental social phenomenon of having one’s fair share– Strauss’ misconcep
6 ii) Distributive and corrective justice
6 iii) Marxist critiques of capitalist social relations as unjust
6 iii) a) The untenability of the labour theory of value as a theory of just exchange masking exploi
6 iii) b) The untenability of the theory of surplus value as a theory of capitalist exploitation
6 iii) c) Other possible injustices of capitalist wage labour
6 iv) The just distribution of the goods of living including the question of poverty
6 v) Social justice: The state welfare apparatus
6 vi) Esteem, honour and fame in social life with a focus on Aristotle and Schopenhauer
6 vii) A just distribution of honour and fame in society? – The (non-)fame of creative recasters o
7 Interlude with some intermediate conclusions: Everyday living of finite human beings – Security
7 i) Securing the polity of civil society – An initial determination of government (Schmitt, Locke
7 ii) Exchange as the starting-point of social living (Plato, Hegel)
7 iii) The reliability of things (Heidegger)
7 iv) Exchange essentially unreliable
7 v) Free market exchange as both an unreliable and reliable form of sociation
7 vi) Money-mediated exchange abstract and reified (Marx)
7 vii) Risky enterprise and secure jobs
8 The short reach of Cartesian certainty and Leibniz’ principle of reason into the social science
8 i) Leibniz’ principle of reason as a general “grand principle”
8 i) a) Digression: The principle of reason further considered
8 i) a) 1. Leibniz
8 i) a) 2. Hegel
8 i) a) 3. Nietzsche
8 i) a) 4. Heidegger
8 i) a) 5. Anaximander and the justice of interplay
8 ii) “The economic law of motion of modern society” (Marx)
8 iii) Adam Smith’s notion of labour-value
8 iv) Economics as a quantitative empirical science (Aristotle, Hayek)
8 v) The disclosive truth of markets
8 vi) Stock market estimations of the future
8 vii) Market irrationality, sentiment and psychology as phenomena of mood
9 Reified social relations, the visible and the invisible hand
9 i) Reified social relations and caring-for in a capitalist economy, drawing on Heidegger’s Being
9 ii) Self-interest and mutual caring-for in exchange
9 iii) Reified social relations and purportedly ‘inhuman’ alienation of human being
9 iv) The wage-labour relation and caring-for – Co-operation and conflict – Hierarchy and reifie
9 v) The invisible hand and the ontological possibility of a caring capitalism – Unlimited economi
9 vi) The set-up and the endless cycle of self-augmentation of reified value (Marx, Heidegger) – T
9 vii) State intervention in the economic interplay of civil society
9 viii) Uncertainty of income-earning – The ‘law’ of social inertia and the tendency toward co
9 ix) The manifestation of the visible hand in the shape of bureaucracy
9 x) State intervention as a visible helping hand for the invisible hand – An asserted uncondition
9 xi) The paternalistic ‘all-caring’ state – Taxation and its tendentially asphyxiating hold o
10 Social power and government
10 i) Metaphysics of social power
10 i) a) Recapitulation: Various kinds of power
10 i) b) Aristotle on social and political power
10 ii) Two related social powers: Rhetoric and the political power of government – Legitimacy, pun
10 iii) Legitimacy of government further considered – Acceptance and affirmation of government
10 iv) The “restlesse desire of Power after power” and the necessity of the Leviathan – Straus
10 v) Legitimacy of the Leviathan – An arbiter in the “Competition of Riches, Honour, Command, o
10 vi) The individualization of the truth of being (Protagoras, Heidegger) – The ultimate ontologi
10 vii) Sharing the truth of being in interplay – Co-casting an historical world in powerless enpr
11 The ontological constitution of ‘we ourselves’
11 i) Dialectical movement from the sensuous givenness of world to the identity of ego and world –
11 ii) Universal self-consciousness and irrepressible, questioning, singular individuality – The e
11 iii) The question of who: Selfhood, my self, you-and-I (Heidegger’s 1934 lectures and Being and
11 iv) How do we ourselves come about? – Belonging together in a situation
11 v) Constitution of an historical people – Heidegger’s authoritarian, anti-liberal casting of
11 vi) We the people and singular, rare individuals – The ethos of open-mindedness – Abstract pe
11 vii) The ontological critique of liberalism – Contract as the abstractly universal shell-form f
12 Government and the state
12 i) Recapitulation: The liberal conception of government, its critique and socio-ontological groun
12 ii) The totalitarian state as a counter-casting to liberalism – The yearning for a totally cont
12 ii) a) Heidegger’s anti-liberal interpretation of the German tradition in 1933 (W. v. Humboldt,
12 iii) The forever contradictory, moving realization of freedom in civil society and state as power
12 iii) a) Diremption of particularity from the universal in civil society and their mediation
12 iii) b) The police and civic corporation as supplements to the interplay of civil society
12 iii) c) A problematic transition from civil society to the state – ‘Infinite’, singular aff
12 iii) d) The state as the universal that remains particular in foreign relations
12 iii) e) The inner constitution of the state and the singularity that remains plural – The endle
12 iii) f) Division of powers within the state in accord with the concept of freedom – Hereditary
12 iii) g) The transition from civil society to state reconsidered: The power play over social recog
12 iii) h) The reality of freedom as the shared, ethical social living of a people and its fracturin
12 iii) i) Hegel’s critique of the liberal conception of state – Kant’s “idea of the origina
12 iii) j) Ontic-ethical ‘second nature’ and ontological insight into the political realm
12 iii) k) The dispensability of the philosopher king and the precipitation of ontological structure
12 iv) Democracy, competitive electoral struggle and majority will vs. individual freedom
12 iv) a) The political power struggle for recognition as a worthy politician – The government’s
12 iv) b) The tendential danger of the dissolution of freedom in merely democratically mediated, sta
12 iv) c) Schumpeter’s competition theory of democracy – The ethical practice of money-mediated
12 iv) d) Carl Schmitt’s critique of the “parliamentary law-making state”– The contradiction
12 v) Democracy, freedom and justice: A recapitulation
13 Relations among states and the global power play among peoples

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