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This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. According to the naturalistic approach, we can discern the inner structure of social consciousness as a systematic pattern of Intentionality. Social consciousness involves three levels of development: subjective, objective and absolute. With this new pattern of social consciousness, the "naturalism" of the young Karl Marx can be revived. And by grasping the most essential ability of human Intentionality as the source of social formation, it also makes an interdisciplinary study of social philosophyand philosophy of mind possible.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part . Intentionality and Actions.- Chapter 2. From Speech Act to Intentionality.- Chapter 3. The Structure of Intentionality.- Chapter 4. The Meaningful Action and Commitment.- Part . Collective Intentionality and Normativity.- Chapter 5. Normativity as Rational Ground.- Chapter 6. Normativity as Collective Creation.- Chapter 7. Normativity as Intersubjective Control.- Part . Normativity with Universal Validity.- Chapter 8. Communication and Social Evolution.- Chapter 9. Discourse Ethics and Moral Cognitivism.- Chapter 10. Critique of Cognitive Parallelism.- Chapter 11. Conclusion./
About the author
Yang Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization and the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2022) and M.A in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2016).
