The Reality of Social Groups

Paul Sheehy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26487-8 (ISBN)

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Examining the ontological nature of social groups and the way in which groups should be regarded within moral deliberation this book makes an original contribution to the field of social philosophy. It tackles the fundamental metaphysical question that has either been ignored or unsatisfactorily addressed: ’what kind of thing is a social group?’ Sheehy argues for an ontological realism about groups, defending the thesis that groups are composite material particulars, ontologically on a par with individuals and capable of figuring in their own right in descriptions and explanations. He then goes on to discuss the practical and moral question of whether groups can be regarded as the bearers of moral status, rights and moral judgements.

Paul Sheehy is Lecturer in Philosophy at Richmond upon Thames College, UK.

Contents: Introduction; Individual and group: identity, composition and reduction; On plural subject theory; Social groups, explanation and ontological holism; Objects of the social world; The corporate soul; The moral status of social groups; The possibility of a group right; The moral evaluation of groups; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-26487-3 / 1138264873
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26487-8 / 9781138264878
Zustand	Neuware