The devil is in the categories
Metaphysics and social and political thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Porter Groff (0000-0002-3053-4068, Political Science St. Louis University St. Louis Missouri USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 675-688 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12320 |
| OpenAlex | W3195131597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
It is often assumed that social and political thought have nothing to do with issues of concern to metaphysicians. I have referred to this assumption in the past as The Myth of Metaphysical Neutrality. I argue here that social and political theories have metaphysical positions built into them, such that to adopt a given social or political account commits one to that theory's implicit metaphysics ‐‐ and, conversely, that commitment to a given metaphysical position will preclude adopting social or political accounts that are at odds with it. I look first at the issue of emergence, showing that key concepts employed by Aristotle, Rousseau and Marx, respectively, require a belief that wholes do not reduce to their parts. I then turn to Marx's account of alienation, arguing that it presupposes a belief in agent‐causal free will
Alienation · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Neutrality · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |