Read Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

John Rogers Searle

4.9/5 (29903 ratings)

Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization. To get started finding Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0195396170

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization. To get started finding Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

More Books

The Construction of Social Reality

The Construction of Social Reality

Mind: A Brief Introduction

Mind: A Brief Introduction

The Mystery of Consciousness

The Mystery of Consciousness

Mind, Language And Society: Philosophy In The Real World

Mind, Language And Society: Philosophy In The Real World

The Rediscovery of the Mind

The Rediscovery of the Mind

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

Intentionality

Intentionality

Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception

Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception