Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life

Lévy-Bruhl thought that the primitive mind could not really distinguish itself from the ‘collective mind’ of the community it was immersed in; the post-modern mind, by contrast, though arguably no less forcibly pressed into the Procrustean bed of various collective beliefs, is very well in the posi...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wojciech Żełaniec
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
FR
IT
Publicado: Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4d03c5c6f8e5443eb5d59b1326cee03c
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:doaj.org-article:4d03c5c6f8e5443eb5d59b1326cee03c
record_format dspace
spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4d03c5c6f8e5443eb5d59b1326cee03c2021-12-02T10:31:07ZAugur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life10.13128/Phe_Mi-181492280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/4d03c5c6f8e5443eb5d59b1326cee03c2016-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7211https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 Lévy-Bruhl thought that the primitive mind could not really distinguish itself from the ‘collective mind’ of the community it was immersed in; the post-modern mind, by contrast, though arguably no less forcibly pressed into the Procrustean bed of various collective beliefs, is very well in the position to dissociate itself from the ‘us’ whose position it sometimes pretends to represent. Are such beliefs, then, really anyone’s beliefs or are they merely ‘make-believes’? Though Gilbert in her ‘Joint commitment’ does not explicitly address this question, I try to reconstruct, from the text of her book, her possible answer to it. Wojciech ŻełaniecRosenberg & SellierarticlebeliefindividualcollectiveAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 9 (2016)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
IT
topic belief
individual
collective
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
spellingShingle belief
individual
collective
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
Wojciech Żełaniec
Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
description Lévy-Bruhl thought that the primitive mind could not really distinguish itself from the ‘collective mind’ of the community it was immersed in; the post-modern mind, by contrast, though arguably no less forcibly pressed into the Procrustean bed of various collective beliefs, is very well in the position to dissociate itself from the ‘us’ whose position it sometimes pretends to represent. Are such beliefs, then, really anyone’s beliefs or are they merely ‘make-believes’? Though Gilbert in her ‘Joint commitment’ does not explicitly address this question, I try to reconstruct, from the text of her book, her possible answer to it.
format article
author Wojciech Żełaniec
author_facet Wojciech Żełaniec
author_sort Wojciech Żełaniec
title Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
title_short Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
title_full Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
title_fullStr Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
title_full_unstemmed Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life
title_sort augur augurem videns... belief and make-believe in social life
publisher Rosenberg & Sellier
publishDate 2016
url https://doaj.org/article/4d03c5c6f8e5443eb5d59b1326cee03c
work_keys_str_mv AT wojciechzełaniec augurauguremvidensbeliefandmakebelieveinsociallife
_version_ 1718397107656720384