Concept
Society
Overview
a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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The second branch of the social passions is that which administers to SOCIETY IN GENERAL. With regard to this, I observe, that society, merely as society, without any particular heightenings, gives us no positive pleasure in the enjoyment; but absolute and entire SOLITUDE, that is, the total and perpetual…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
The chapter “SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.” is titled for Society; names Society several times.
They have both a eulogistic or normative sense, and a descriptive sense; a meaning de jure and a meaning de facto. In social philosophy, the former connotation is almost always uppermost. Society is conceived as one by its very nature. The qualities which accompany this unity, praiseworthy community of purpose and welfare, loyalty to public ends, mutuality of sympathy, are emphasized.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Names Society several times; states what Society is.
OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL. What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? Where does the authority of society begin? How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society? Each will receive its proper share, if each has that which more particularly concerns it.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Names Society several times; states what Society is.
Philosophers who discussed Society
- Max Stirner
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- George Herbert Mead
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Allan Bloom
- Hermarchus
- Frithjof Bergmann
- Moritz Lazarus
- Aleksander Świętochowski
Related ideas
- E. O. Wilson
- Harvard University Press
- Auguste Comte
- City-state
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Industrial Revolution
- Human condition
- Karl Marx
- Language
- Latin
- Eurocentrism
- Modernity
- Culture
- BBC
- Max Weber
- University of Chicago Press
- Social relation
- Ibn Khaldun
- Social constructionism
- Nation state
- University of California Press
- Race (human categorization)
- Roman Republic
- Individual
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.