The Emergence of Social Life and the Ontology of Consociatio in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius
Ruokanen, J. (2023). The Emergence of Social Life and the Ontology of Consociatio in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius. In J. Pelletier, & C. Rode (Eds.), The Reality of the Social World : Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology (pp. 93-116). Springer. Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23984-7_6
Julkaistu sarjassa
Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and ActionTekijät
Päivämäärä
2023Pääsyrajoitukset
Embargo päättyy: 2025-04-05Pyydä artikkeli tutkijalta
Tekijänoikeudet
© 2023 the Authors
Political and social theories, contemporary as well as historical, rest on explicit and implicit notions of social life. Even if the subject matter of these theories is not ontology as such, notions about social life inevitably give rise to some kind of ontology that is social for the simple reason that it concerns social phenomena. My aim here is to discover the sort of fundamental elements that social life rests on in the political theory of Johannes Althusius (1557–1638). The analysis shows that besides the human will, which has an important role in the existence of social life, social life is also a product of nature and the will of God. These three forces are also in play in the ontology of consociatio, i.e. an association or union, that is the main locus and mode of social life and the fundamental building block of society understood as an aggregation of multiple consociationes. This is because the existence of consociatio depends on its order-giving ‘symbiotic right’, which is a product of nature, God, and human effort. Further analysis of symbiotic right reveals that the ontology of consociatio is set in a framework of a ‘substantial’ ontology of reality, but that it also manifests ‘relational’ and even ‘processual’ dimensions to an extent that is surprising if pre- and early modern social and political theories are thought to rest firmly on an Aristotelian ontology of substance.
...
Julkaisija
SpringerEmojulkaisun ISBN
978-3-031-23983-0Kuuluu julkaisuun
The Reality of the Social World : Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social OntologyISSN Hae Julkaisufoorumista
2509-4793Asiasanat
Julkaisu tutkimustietojärjestelmässä
https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/182817392
Metadata
Näytä kaikki kuvailutiedotKokoelmat
Lisenssi
Samankaltainen aineisto
Näytetään aineistoja, joilla on samankaltainen nimeke tai asiasanat.
-
On the ontology of social pathologies
Hirvonen, Onni (University of Sussex, 2018)The recent years have seen a rehabilitation of the concept of social pathology in the critical social theory. However, several pertinent questions about how to understand social pathologies remain. One of the big issues ... -
The postmodern and political agency
Pulkkinen, Tuija (University of Jyväskylä, 2015) -
Grounding social criticism : from understanding to suffering and back
Hirvonen, Onni (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2019)This paper critically examines John Dewey’s and Axel Honneth’s critical social philosophies in order to highlight two different normative sources of social struggle: scientific understanding and social suffering. The ... -
Otherwise than quantum
Prozorov, Sergei (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022)The paper focuses on two problems with Alexander Wendt's unification of physical and social ontology on the basis of quantum theory. Firstly, by endowing social phenomena with an ontological foundation in physical reality ... -
The Problem of the First Belief : Group Agents and Responsibility
Hirvonen, Onni (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020)Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to ...
Ellei toisin mainittu, julkisesti saatavilla olevia JYX-metatietoja (poislukien tiivistelmät) saa vapaasti uudelleenkäyttää CC0-lisenssillä.