{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-society-ragnar-stara-9789526950761","title":"A Philosophy of Society: The Cognitive Structures of Social Existence","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Philosophy of Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theory of existence highlights the tension between the empirical phenomena and the cognitive structure that explains the phenomena. The physical world differs from the world which people imagine is society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concepts of nation and society evade our attempts at definition. Philosophy offers a way of analyzing these concepts. Reworking Aristotle s concepts of substance and category provides a tool for studying the social reality. The social sciences require an elucidatory definition of society. Sociologists are focused on the empirical within society but not on what society is. Aristotle s social human forms a society, but this is the set of set theory. Rousseau s social contract and Hobbes ' social control of people arise from the cognitive structure of set theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Set theory is complemented by Uuno Saarnio s typology of the relations of the parts within a whole. Society and the nation are wholes and can be studied based on Saarnio s typology. Leibniz 'doctrine of toleration provides a determination of the social. Society becomes \u003cem\u003etolerantia ecclesiastica\u003c\/em\u003e. This definition of society leeds to a new look at the classical themes of philosophy. This new approach means that the this will be a foundation of the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spheres of toleration are wholes with parts. This book was translated from the original in Swedish by Rob Myatt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRagnar Stara (born 1948) received a Bachelor of Arts in Political History from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1972. His volume the \u003cem\u003eConcept of the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1980 in Swedish after phd studies in Uppsala, Sweden, followed by \u003cem\u003eHuman society\u003c\/em\u003e in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ragnar Stara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9526950763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789526950761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Starabooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Ragnar Stara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244323127551,"sku":"9789526950761","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44dafe3e-6909-4bd6-9cf7-826e7569443a.jpg?v=1758135462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-philosophy-of-society-ragnar-stara-9789526950761","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}