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Emergence of We-Intentionality: Commitment or Belonging?
No full textIn this contribution I will pick out firstly the basic forms of cooperation and We-intentionality: language, social objects, documents, commitment, parcelling of tasks and
recognition of a we-authority. Unfortunately, this list of generic social attitudes explains only various aspects of the social reality without explaining their emergence. Therefore, I will propose to treat We-Intentionality as the outcome of an irreducible belonging to a group, whereby the members develop cognitive capacities by participating in group activities and engaging in joint attention, and moreover, they learn language, symbols and documents as a form of shared intentionality. Finally I will introduce a novel theory of belonging as personal – and partially irreflexive – engagement for the preservation of one’s own group by means of cooperatively self-aware joint activitie
Nature and Origins of We-Intentionality.
No full textIn this contribution I intend to deal with the question about the origins and the features of the human capacity to evolve cooperative activities and institutions that is normally called we-intentionality. As humans cannot evolve this capacity without having been integrated in
already given social collaborative activities we are forced to put the focus on the interdependence that is established between individual participants and the objective cooperative environment for explaining what cooperation is. I will treat this interdependence as ontologically constitutive for having cooperative activities in general and also for evolving high developed institutions like states and nations. Eventually
I will deal with the notion of belongingness and consider it as more constitutive of that of commitment that is typical in contract-centred theories
Intentions and Self-Consciousness: Revision of a Neutral Conception of Intentionality.
No full textIn this contribution I will address the question concerning the relation between self-consciousness and intentionality. I will argue that the concept of intentionality is mystifying
if treated as an isolated mental stance because this requires a sort of non-observational knowledge that does not fit with the observational aspects of intentionality like directedness and interaction with an environment. I will further analyse basic forms of intentionality in intentional systems and agents in order to investigate the link between intentions and interaction with the environment. Through this investigation the particular
form of interaction of the human beings that lies beneath specific competences like recognition and evaluation of norms, which are organized in the way of the self- consciousness, will emerge
At the Origins of Institutional Reality: Desire and Recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
No full textIn the passages of Phenomenology of spirit titled, B. Self-consciousness, Hegel (1807) supplies us with the theory of the duplication (Verdoppelung) of Self-
consciousness, which allows the dissolution of individuality in a context of a reciprocal relationship with another individuality, i.e., another Self- consciousness. This relationship arises from an original relationship to an external object, i.e., desire (Begierde)
and develops in institutional reality by the independence from the desire self. In this contribution, my aim is to explain Hegel’s principle of desire-independence and compare it to the quite similar Searle’s (2010) proposal that Status Functions Declarations [SFD] must be desire-independent. The lordship-bondage relationship reveals a recognitive structure in which individuals’ independence vanishes in the institutional reality
Geist, Alienation and Background: How Humans Find their Rules.
No full textIt is not ever clear the relation between the institutions of a state or of a community and the individuals who are part of that community. The institutions have the task to mediate the instances of the individuals by institutions like laws, norms, moral and culture, whose existence depends from the common acceptance of their authority. However it is possible to observe a dialectic relation between groups and institutions. The aim of the paper is
to explain what happens if the norms lose their function to mediate the instances of the members of a community. That occurs for example when norms are not more topical and when they need to be changed and innovated. But what happens when rules are not more effective in the mediation of the We
Hegel's Speculative Ontology and Global Trade
No full textThis contribution aims to address the influence and the possible applications of Hegel’s philosophy in the social sciences, particularly economics. What Hegel has in common with the actual studies of economics is the consideration of the role of the
market in the determination of our economic life and choices. I suppose that the market can be treated as a holistic phenomenon that includes singular elements, which are also its expression (Sen 1987). Therefore the global space of commercial trade represents the dimension in which operators, entrepreneurs, bankers, managers and contractors act and by which everyone is determined. The freedom of these actors in the scene of the free trade is ruled both by laws and by other members and the level of participation is the result of this kind of determination
German Classical Philosophy and Naturalism
No full textatti del convegno su German Classical Philosophy and Naturalism tenutosi presso Georgetown University il 14-14 dicembre 201
Nature and Origins of We-Intentionality
No full textIn this contribution I intend to deal with the question about the origins and the features of the human capacity to evolve cooperative activities and institutions that is normally called we-intentionality. As humans cannot evolve this capacity without having been integrated in
already given social collaborative activities we are forced to put the focus on the interdependence that is established between individual participants and the objective cooperative environment for explaining what cooperation is. I will treat this interdependence as ontologically constitutive for having cooperative activities in general and also for evolving high developed institutions like states and nations. Eventually
I will deal with the notion of belongingness and consider it as more constitutive of that of commitment that is typical in contract-centred theories
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