Christian Rode Livres

Die Untersuchung beleuchtet die ontologischen Konzepte sozialer Gegenstände im Mittelalter, insbesondere zwischen 1260 und 1350. Sie stellt die Frage, ob soziale Entitäten wie Geld, Kunstwerke und Institutionen als eigenständige Dinge oder als Ableitungen materieller Objekte verstanden werden können. Durch die Analyse ausgewählter mittelalterlicher Texte wird erörtert, wie Autoren dieser Zeit das Sein von Gesellschaften und die Beziehung zwischen Individuum und politischer Gemeinschaft konzipierten. Dies bietet einen historischen Kontext für die moderne Diskussion in der analytischen Philosophie über soziale Ontologie.

I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year '95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art's sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I have seldom known him claim any large reward for his inestimable services. So unworldly was he-or so capricious-that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.