A Sociology of Modernity
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
... Notice further that, in attributing to the vague and (so to speak) objectified consciousness of a universal reason the first revelation of Divinity, we assume absolutely nothing concerning even the reality or non-reality of God. In fact, admitting that God is nothing more than collective instinct or ...
... Notice further that, in attributing to the vague and (so to speak) objectified consciousness of a universal reason the first revelation of Divinity, we assume absolutely nothing concerning even the reality or non-reality of God. In fact, admitting that God is nothing more than collective instinct or ...
Conceptualization and defining historical land injustices
... commodity for exchange in the market place. In African epistemology land means much more: land is the basis of all life on earth and there can be no life detached from land.1 Land is not only the material and spiritual basis of life for individual human beings but is also a component of the means of ...
... commodity for exchange in the market place. In African epistemology land means much more: land is the basis of all life on earth and there can be no life detached from land.1 Land is not only the material and spiritual basis of life for individual human beings but is also a component of the means of ...
Face-to-Face: Social Work and Evil Abstract The concept of evil
... to a religious worldview (Baker 2008). For another, secular and religious meanings often interpenetrate precisely at those times when we conjure up this appellation, as the encounter with evil transports us into a different zone where ordinary sense-making schema are suspended (Richmond et al. 1999) ...
... to a religious worldview (Baker 2008). For another, secular and religious meanings often interpenetrate precisely at those times when we conjure up this appellation, as the encounter with evil transports us into a different zone where ordinary sense-making schema are suspended (Richmond et al. 1999) ...
The Social Contract
... "What did I do?" His refuge may lie in social paranoia such as that so favored by the young. It is somebody else's fault. But the mature must inquire more deeply. What did we do that was wrong? And there is coming about in our time a generation of scientists who, granted the courage, have the power ...
... "What did I do?" His refuge may lie in social paranoia such as that so favored by the young. It is somebody else's fault. But the mature must inquire more deeply. What did we do that was wrong? And there is coming about in our time a generation of scientists who, granted the courage, have the power ...
Review of Objectivity and Its Other, Edited by Wolfgang Natter
... John Paul Jones III continues the deconstruction of objectivist claims in the context of geography, in his essay "Making Geography Objectively: Ocularity, Representation and The Nature of Geography." Here again the topic is the role of objectivity in constituting the identity of a discipline or pro ...
... John Paul Jones III continues the deconstruction of objectivist claims in the context of geography, in his essay "Making Geography Objectively: Ocularity, Representation and The Nature of Geography." Here again the topic is the role of objectivity in constituting the identity of a discipline or pro ...
Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis
... debates – we would in fact understand very little about what is going on in these social situations, nor would we understand what these pieces of discourse actually mean. The reason is that the ‘meaning’ does not so much reside in the discourse itself, but rather resides in the actions that people t ...
... debates – we would in fact understand very little about what is going on in these social situations, nor would we understand what these pieces of discourse actually mean. The reason is that the ‘meaning’ does not so much reside in the discourse itself, but rather resides in the actions that people t ...
Fundamental Assumptions in Narrative Analysis
... For these reasons, feeling disoriented when approaching this field, especially as a novice, is to be expected. In fact, at first, we found ourselves struggling with very basic questions such as: Do these narrative studies have anything in common aside from the use of the word “narrative”? If so, wha ...
... For these reasons, feeling disoriented when approaching this field, especially as a novice, is to be expected. In fact, at first, we found ourselves struggling with very basic questions such as: Do these narrative studies have anything in common aside from the use of the word “narrative”? If so, wha ...
Adam Smith`s Political Philosophy: The invisible hand
... in most discussions of the notion of spontaneous order, the aim is to concentrate on what they have to say about the political theory of spontaneous orders. That is, we will consider the market, often taken to be the paradigmatic example of a spontaneous order, as one social phenomenon among others ...
... in most discussions of the notion of spontaneous order, the aim is to concentrate on what they have to say about the political theory of spontaneous orders. That is, we will consider the market, often taken to be the paradigmatic example of a spontaneous order, as one social phenomenon among others ...
