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...

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Main Author:	Wojciech Żełaniec
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Language:	EN FR IT
Published:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Subjects:	belief individual collective Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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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)
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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.
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Augur Augurem Videns... Belief and Make-Believe in Social Life

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