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Making the Social World - The Structure of Human Civilization (Paperback)
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Making the Social World - The Structure of Human Civilization (Paperback)
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Loot Price R565
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There are few more important philosophers at work today than John
Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way
we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound
understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of
money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail
parties.
The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these
facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an
objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in
his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle
identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all
"institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and
civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the
physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle
explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over,
is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human
social institutions. These institutions serve to create and
distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible.
These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides
the glue that holds human civilization together.
Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human
rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power
and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his
explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the
threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies
that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for
language-using human beings.
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