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Essential Society

An Ontological Reconstruction

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  1. Ervin Laszlo
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 1-3

  3. Ontology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Methodology

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 7-27

    3. Epistemics: Scepticism and Conceptualism

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 28-33

    4. The Materialistic Inference

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 34-45

    5. Systematization

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 46-51

    6. Summary

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 51-52

  4. Anthropology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. The Interpretation of Evolution

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 55-65

    3. A Systematic Account of Civilization and its Ethical Criteria

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 66-81

    4. Three Analyses

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 82-104

  5. Sociology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Interpretation of History

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 107-117

    3. Communism and Historical Necessity

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 118-125

    4. The Economy of Culture

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 126-141

    5. Social Organization and the Individual

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 142-147

    6. Political Axiology

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 148-154

    7. Government by Idea

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 155-157

    8. The Totalitarian and Liberal Applications of Social Theories

      • Ervin Laszlo
      Pages 158-165
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There are greatly divergent modes of thinking and widely differing problems subsumed as belonging to the domain of eontemporary philosophy. Some philosophers may weil find that they have little more in eommon with their coileagues than their interest in exposing a problem on the level of thought, systematically, and with the optimum regard for the validity of their argumentation. The traditional confliet between philosophie schools lies in the solution different thinkers propose to a problem. In our day, however, there is a deeper schism between the exponents of different sehools than a difference in the problem's solution. The conflict involves already the formulation of the problem. There are at least two general modes of pursuing philosophical investigation where no conflict in the solution of problems not beeause there would be agreement among the thinkers, is possible, but because the problems attacked by the thought of one school are not taken into consideration by the adherents of the other. In general, it may be said without fear of serious opposition that the kind of problems dealt with by neo-positivists and positivistic analysts are seldom if ever closely examined by ontologists, metaphysicians, existentialists and certain other schools of the speculative branch of philosophy, while these philosophers deal with problems which are generally regarded to be outside the scope of philosophie inquiry by positivists and analysts.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Society

  • Book Subtitle: An Ontological Reconstruction

  • Authors: Ervin Laszlo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6420-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1963

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-0090-5Published: 31 July 1963

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-6420-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 169

  • Topics: Political Philosophy

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