Meta-institutional concepts
a new category for social ontology
pp. 127-139
Résumé
In Speech Acts, John Searle argues that institutional facts presuppose, for their existence, the existence of certain institutions (understood as systems of constitutive rules). In this paper I extend Searle’s theory of institutional facts arguing that a further level is needed for the investigation of the structure of institutional reality: the level of meta-institutional concepts. The meta-institutional concepts are concepts that go beyond (Greek: metá) the institutions of which they are conditions of possibility. An example of meta-institutional concept is the concept of game. In a culture which does not have the concept of game, we could move the chess-men according to the rules of chess, we could also perform a castling, but it would be impossible to play chess.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
(2014) The other(s). Rivista di estetica 56.
Pages: 127-139
DOI: 10.4000/estetica.876
Citation complète:
Lorini Giuseppe, 2014, Meta-institutional concepts: a new category for social ontology. Rivista di estetica 56, The other(s), 127-139. https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.876.